I would hope that you can get better performance than that. I ran an ISP that handled over 6,000 messages per day which is nothing for a moderate ISP. figure at least 10 messages per day (including spam) per user. If you've got 3500 users that's 35,000 messages. (35,000 / 24 = 1458.33 per hour.)
500 messages per day limit due to hardware is pretty pathetic. I ran the 6,000 messages per day on Linux on a K6-II 400 w/512MB of RAM and sendmail. I've just put two systems together using Postfix and dbmail. One of them is on very modest hardware about to be upgraded (Celeron 1GHz/ 1GB RAM - don't go there.) the database is on the same machine MySQL). The other is running on Athlon 1GHz 1GB RAM and the database is on a separate machine (Pentium IV 2.8 GHz 1GB RAM running Gentoo Linux and MySQL). My assumption is that I can run multiple mailservers against the database server. The dbserver also performs DNS using powerdns (also a MySQL backend.) Curtis Steven Lynn wrote: > I ran it in a similar setup but I had two machines with a private > replication network connection. It ran very strong for about 6-8 > months before hardware issues got in the way. It was handling a > 500message per day average with the bulk in the morning (SPAM). I am > now down to 1 primary and 1 slave and no fail-over. I had no special > setup for DBMail, only special setup with the util (ucarp) to do > failover... > > Hope this helps. > > On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 20:53 +1200, Tristram J. Cheer wrote: > >> Hey All, >> >> >> >> We are looking for a pop3/smtp solution for our ISP, we are wanting >> to use DBMAIL in our 5 server LVM cluster – we try and do everything >> via SQL so that out we can keep a single SQL db on each machine and >> have it clustered. >> >> >> >> Does anyone have anything like this running and if so can they >> provide some info about how they did it? >> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >> Tristram >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Dbmail mailing list >>[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail >> >> >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Dbmail mailing list >[email protected] >https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > >
