On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 01:45:41PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote:
> we're running courier (POP3 and IMAP) on our largest mail cluster (over
> 15k users in /etc/passwd); there are about 4 machines which share the
> load (pseudo load-balanced using multiple DNS records).

We're doing 7800 users on one box here, also via /etc/passwd.

> the machines in question aren't super buff, but they're not too weak
> either; i think they're mostly dual pIII 866. the disks are scsi and
> don't have too much other disk-intensive stuff going on.

We're using a single processor IDE RAID boxes.

You must be doing something wrong or your users do more mail (or more
SSL!) than ours.

Right now, we have 6 authdaemons running.

>  13:40:17 up 4 days, 16:11,  3 users,  load average: 6.38, 6.13, 6.14
> 151 processes: 148 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  27.4% user,   2.4% system,   0.0% nice,  70.2% idle
> Mem:    900048K total,   893464K used,     6584K free,     3672K buffers
> Swap:  1020116K total,     8988K used,  1011128K free,   763312K cached

Entirely I/O load.

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