Load Balancing + File Locking

[Ugo Bellavance]

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Boulytchev, Vasiliy wrote:

> Ladies and Gents,
>         The loads on the mail server require us to start moving Mailscanner
> with Spam and Virus filtering to other machines.  Questions:
>         1.)     How does MS do the locking on files in the submitted
> directory (after cgp2ms)?  If NFS3 is used to mount that shared folder on
> say 3 servers designated to only scanning mail, how do we avoid run-ons?
>         2.)     Idea: if the local procs keep track of locking, then we can
> toss all that into mysql for example? :)))  Just thinking of ways to add
> scalability.

Isn't it simpler to use MX records to do your load balancing?  Or a
hardware load balancer like coyotelinux sells?

>
> Thanks,
>
> Vasiliy Boulytchev
> Colorado Information Technologies, Inc.
> http://www.coinfotech.com
>
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