[Gluster-users] WAN replication

Gandalf Corvotempesta gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com
Sat Oct 29 14:19:08 UTC 2016


I've forgot: how much ram/cpu are needed by Dovecot Proxy/Director ? I
have to evaluate some cloud services.
Are there any specs like "128MB for each concurrent connection" and so on ?


2016-10-29 15:56 GMT+02:00 Gandalf Corvotempesta
<gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com>:
> As i'm planning a new email infrastructure with Gluster storage, I
> would like to get a fully geographically redundant storage.
>
> Speed should not be a critical factor for a mailbox (I think)
> What would happen by setting a peer across a WAN connection ? (fibre 100mbit) ?
>
> Currenty I don't have 100mbit/s of disk writes on my email servers.
> In a replica 3, all reads are distributed across the whole cluster or
> only on first node? Because having all reads to cross the Internet is
> not good.
>
> Any advice? Georeplication is async, thus I can't load-balance the
> IMAP servers nor using a failover, because the replicated cluster is
> always out-of-sync


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