[Dovecot] director in large(ish) environments

Henrique Fernandes sf.rique at gmail.com
Tue Dec 28 04:55:07 EET 2010


Can i ask how are you storing your mail ? like, NFS, gfs, ocfs2  etc

and with type, like  mbox, maildir, sdbox etc..

In my system we are not usign director, using IPVS  but having lots of IO
wait problems!

Thanks!

[]'sf.rique


On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Cor Bosman <cor at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Hey all, just wondering who here is running the director service in a
> larger environment. I just switched our whole production setup to the
> director and am quite pleased with the result. We're doing a peak of about
> 25000 tot 30000 concurrent sessions on 3 servers. But ive shut 1 server down
> a couple of days ago to see what would happen and 2 servers carried the load
> easily. (16 CPU, 24GB memory servers).   If others are using the director on
> larger setups maybe we can all post when things do or dont work well.
>
> Now to see if the solution is better than the problem :)
>
> Cor
>
>


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