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From: Ward, Michael

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Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 8:01 PM

Subject: [sympa-users] Recommended Sympa disk configuration?

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for the disk configuration of the Sympa server? I’m running Sympa 5.2.1 on Red Hat Linux ES 4. The hardware platform is an old HP Proliant DL380 G0, with four SCSI disk slots.

I have two mirrored volumes, 2 x 9Gb for the OS and 2 x 36Gb for ‘data’. Currently I have mapped /home/sympa to the ‘data’ volume, so the entire Sympa folder is located on the 2 x 36Gb drives. However I’m not sure this is a good idea, as if the archives fill up the volume, then Sympa itself will likely die.

So I’m thinking I’ll just map the /home/sympa/arc folder to the ‘data’ volume and leave the rest on the OS volume. Is this how other people are doing it? Are there any recommendations for this kind of thing?

Thanks!

Michael

 

 Depends - if you're planning for disk space, your approach is fine. If you're planning for performance on heavy loaded server - you need to separate /var/spool/postfix (or other mta), /var/log, /var/spool/sympa (or whereever sympa's spool is) and MYSQL db as much as possible (preferably on different controllers). And no raid for /var/spool/postfix and /var/spool/sympa - it'll slow it down. And it works in pairs - first /var/spool/sympa and MYSQL home is heavily used, then /var/spool/postfix and /var/log.

 

However, nowadays it matters less - SCSI-160 or 320 will bail you out.

 

Vadim