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Article #3184splitting the sendmail load
From: Brian Kantor
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1989 18:47
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1989 18:47
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I've just come up with what I think is a brilliant and original idea: NFS mount /usr/spool/mqueue across two or more suns, and have one of them act as the sendmail receiver (-odq) and another run the queue for delivery. The idea is to avoid having to buy a bigger machine for our mail gateway by using the much-less expensive Suns and spreading the sendmail load out among more than one CPU. As far as I can tell, sendmail does all it's interaction and locking using files in the mqueue, so this should work. Have I missed something? Is anyone already doing this or tried it? Brian Kantor UCSD Office of Academic Computing Academic Network Operations Group brian@ucsd.edu ucsd!brian BRIAN@UCSD
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ucsd!brian From: brian@ucsd.EDU (Brian Kantor) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: splitting the sendmail load Message-ID: <1447@ucsd.EDU> Date: 10 Feb 89 18:47:09 GMT Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd. Lines: 14