Re: [courier-users] scalability

2003-11-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
Jesse Keating wrote: I've personally worked on a project to build a courier email system for a ISP like company. We run 2~3 front end email servers, tied in to a NFS backend for mail store. This system handles for approximately 10K users. What OS/filesystem did you use on your NFS server?

Re: [courier-users] scalability

2003-11-04 Thread Michael J Wise
On Nov 3, 2003, at 8:19 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: This system handles for approximately 10K users. But how WELL? Does it Breath Hard? Can it be used for anything else (like hosting a few hundred websites, etc.) ? Any ideas as to the load average and %age processor usage of the three mail

Re: [courier-users] scalability

2003-11-04 Thread matthew kolb
On Nov 4, 2003, at 12:58 AM, Richard Houston wrote: Hi all, I am looking at putting a courier imap server in to production with a large amount of users, over 1000, in the near future. I have be asked a fer time as to how many users can the courier system handle. I will be using postfix and

Re: [courier-users] scalability

2003-11-04 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Richard Houston wrote: Hi all, I am looking at putting a courier imap server in to production with a large amount of users, over 1000, in the near future. I have be asked a fer time as to how many users can the courier system handle. I will be using postfix and courier-imap. Could I ask a few of

Re: [courier-users] scalability

2003-11-04 Thread Theodore J. Knab
I have a Courier-IMAP setup and a Postfix MTA with 3404 accounts on a dual IBM Netfinity type 8665-R6Y. The server is only a dual 700Mhz machine with 7GB of RAM and a 100GB RAID volume for IMAP mail. Yet, 1700 people use it daily. Between 195-240 users are simultaneously connected between

Re: Re: [courier-users] scalability

2003-11-04 Thread Martin Furmanski
Hello, Michael J Wise, 100 k/day is like a bit more than 1/s your almost 1000 k/day would be 10/s that ain't a lot on average. i think even my crappy 166 MHz box could handle that. what are your peaks? === At 2003-11-03, 21:52:00 you wrote: === On Nov 3, 2003, at 8:19 PM, Jesse Keating

Re: [courier-users] scalability

2003-11-04 Thread Jesse Keating
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 November 2003 23:52, Michael J Wise wrote: But how WELL? Does it Breath Hard? Can it be used for anything else (like hosting a few hundred websites, etc.) ? I'd have to ask the other party involved with the project, he's closer to

[courier-users] scalability

2003-11-03 Thread Richard Houston
Hi all, I am looking at putting a courier imap server in to production with a large amount of users, over 1000, in the near future. I have be asked a fer time as to how many users can the courier system handle. I will be using postfix and courier-imap. Could I ask a few of you let me know how big

[courier-users] Scalability of Courier-imap (POP) service

2003-06-30 Thread Scott Sharkey
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[courier-users] Scalability feedback

2002-06-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I'd like some feedback from sites that handle a fair amount of webmail traffic; specifically the CPU load and memory footprint. I am considering switching to a different internal architectural design. Right now, a new process is started to handle every HTTP request. After generating the