[tech] Breaking out some of Mussel's services.

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Mon Jun 16 23:52:37 WST 2008


On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:26:31AM +0800, James French wrote:
> Do we want to move some of the core services mussel has running onto
> another machine/VM. I'm all for keeping Mussel a general user machine
> running general user services but when random service B takes the
> machine down it's annoying.
> 
> Specifically, I'm thinking LDAP, IMAP/POP and Web could stand to be
> put on a different machine. LDAP is the biggest problem as when it
> goes away it makes getting in remotely a royal pita.
> 
> Lastly, before I get accused of the opposite I do like the fact that
> we don't just run web, mail and DNS. Mussel is a great place to run
> the non-core stuff like games servers.
> 
> What do other people think?

Nah. Just use ulimit -d on resource hog services already. And turn off SSL for
ldap on core machines, then failover should work (hooray it trying to 
keep using the same SSL session to a different host).

Matt


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