Woa!! Do you have statistics of access/min for pop3?
Indeed it could be premature since I didn't measure any real bottleneck. Just something that got my attention. []'s giorgenes 2008/8/14 Jose Celestino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Words by Giorgenes Gelatti [Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 03:38:50PM -0300]: >> Hello All, >> >> I've been studying dovecot for replacing my company's current system >> and I got a little worried about an aspect of the dovecot's design. >> I was surprised that dovecot doesn't use prefork for its mail >> processes, forking a new processes for each new client connection. >> >> Talking in the #dovecot channel I was gave a scenario of a system >> supporting ~40k users with 4 servers just fine. >> I wonder how well dovecot would scale if we increase this number of >> users by some order of magnitude like, say, 4M users. >> > > Well, we have 8 servers for that amount of users. > >> It is well known that preforking is a good pratice if you want to >> achieve a higher performance. > > Some say it's premature optimization. > >> When I was asked about it I readily answered: "of course it does". For >> my surprise later, i doesn't. >> >> Do you have any plans to support preforking in the near future? >> > > -- > Jose Celestino | http://japc.uncovering.org/files/japc-pgpkey.asc > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > "One man's theology is another man's belly laugh." -- Robert A. Heinlein >
