Performance measurement and analysis of E-mail cluster systems by using three IP load-balancing technologies

Author

Ying-Wen Bai ; Chung-Pian Chang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Fu Jen Catholic Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2013

fDate

5-8 May 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents a Linux virtual server (LVS) based cluster system which is designed to simulate the operation of E-mail service in the real world. For a complete study of the system we build a load generator that is used to perform a series of stress-tests with LVS load-balancing technology. We obtain important results by comparing a series of stress-testing reports. After we take some steps to resolve problems of the system we obtain the expected results, that is, a well-designed system which provides scalable, reliable and highly cost-efficient E-mail service.

Keywords

IP networks; Linux; computer network performance evaluation; electronic mail; resource allocation; IP load-balancing technologies; LVS load-balancing technology; LVS-based cluster system; Linux virtual server-based cluster system; e-mail cluster systems; e-mail service operation simulation; load generator; performance analysis; performance measurement; stress-tests; Databases; Electronic mail; High definition video; IP networks; Relays; Servers; Throughput; Domain Name System; Electronic Mail; Hard Disk; Input/Output; Lightweight Directory Access Protocol; Linux Virtual Server; Network Information Service;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2013 26th Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Regina, SK

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0031-2

Electronic_ISBN

0840-7789

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2013.6567824

Filename

6567824