The best benchmark tool that i have for XSAN, giving the closest performance to what is rated on the disk subsystem.

Please reference Xsan File System

if Cyrus IMAP dies with “User defined signal 1” on Leopard Server and you can’t get the mail server up, look at this post. Continue reading Cyrus IMAP dies on Leopard Server →

Refer to this: http://www.kenior.com/macintosh/adding-gd-library-for-mac-os-x-leopard

This will allow the pie charts to be generated in Ganglia.

Server side mail filtering is a beautiful thing. Here are some useful instructions that i have found on how to set it up using OSX. I believe that the process would be very similar in the other UNIXes. There are, however, a couple of things to note in the setup. Continue reading Setting up Sieve in OSX →