Words by Giorgenes Gelatti [Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 04:46:04PM -0300]: > Woa!! > > Do you have statistics of access/min for pop3? >
No, but I 'greped' 2300 logins/minute peak for a given day for *IMAP*. > 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
