Wesley Craig wrote: > On 21 Sep 2007, at 13:36, Pascal Gienger wrote: > >> A proxy would mean another possibility of failure. How stable is >> that proxy daemon? Another two boxes for redundancy? >> > > UMich runs the caching proxy on the host running httpd/webmail. up- > imapproxy is very stable. > > We found the opposite; proxies for busy servers would segfault every half-hour or so. It pretty much crippled our webmail system. The problem was that up-imapproxy's SSL code wasn't thread safe, and we were running on parallelised systems (SPARC T2000s). If you're going to run it in a similar environment, be sure to use 1.2.6rc1, which has our fixes. Adam. -- -------------------------------- Adam Stephens Network Specialist - Email & DNS adam.stephens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
