On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 11:21, Pierangelo Masarati wrote: > Michael Torrie wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 10:49, Pierangelo Masarati wrote: > > > > > > I suggest you use different replicas for different tasks, e.g. one > > > replica > > > for mail routing and one for unix/samba auth, so you can use heavy log > > > on the auth replica only and try to find more useful hints on the > > > failure > > > cause. > > > > Sorry, but this doesn't make any sense. I'm not using LDAP for anything > > but authentication. Also I simply do not have other machines available > > to set up a secondary LDAP server. Besides, the problem isn't > > necessarily being caused by the mail server. It's a system-wide failure > > with causes unknown. IE all clients, samba, unix, etc all can't talk to > > ldap and thus can't authenticate users. The sendmail thing is just a > > symptom of something somewhere else. If I turn on heaving logging on > > the authentication replica (supposing I did as you suggest), logins will > > get really slow. > > My point is: if it is some special request (as I think) that triggers > the problem, and you think full logging will slow down your mail server, > try to split the work on one server for mail routing with no logging > (I experienced long lasting slapds serving mail routing for hundred > thousands users and millions of mails delivered per day with no problem > at all) and another server (on the same machine, doesn't matter) for > auth with full logging (and, of course, slow down and reduced service) > to find out what causes the failure. I understand. I think I can get another machine, so I'll set it up. Thank you. Michael > > Pierangelo. > > -- > Dr. Pierangelo Masarati | voice: +39 02 2399 8309 > Dip. Ing. Aerospaziale | fax: +39 02 2399 8334 > Politecnico di Milano | > mailto:pierangelo.masarati@polimi.it > via La Masa 34, 20156 Milano, Italy | > http://www.aero.polimi.it/~masarati -- Public key available from http://students.cs.byu.edu/~torriem
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