How many virtual hosts are you running? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Butler (49pence)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 7:28 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] Imail performance
> We're in the process of evaluating Imail for our users. I'd like to know > what kind of performance other users were getting out of it, as I think the > server is under pretty high load and not sure if it is Imail generally > sapping CPU cycles or else we've got something in the config horribly wrong. > > At the moment the setup we're running is: > 2.8ghz P4, 1gb DDR, 80gb 7200rpm HDD: Imail server, running POP3, SMTP, > Webmail, and Queuemgr > 2.4ghz P4, 512mb DDR: Running a sending only service. > > The 2.8 machine routes all outgoing messages through the 2.4 to relieve the > load a bit. The 2.8 machine is only a temporary machine that we're testing > on, and there's a proper Xeon machine coming with SCSI RAID etc. This is a > fairly average day's usage for us: > SpamContent 8464 > LocalDeliver 29084 > RemoteDeliver 9376 > > The 2.8 machine is coping with this load, but only just. It regularly has > 100% CPU usage for several minutes which causes the POP3 and webmail service > to slow down. The current plans are to put two Debian boxes before the Imail > one, to cleanse incoming mail and for routing outgoing email. Spam/virus > filtering will be done at this level so Imail has less traffic to process. > > I'd like to know what kind of hardware/software setup you guys are running > and how much mail it's happy with processing. Any tweaking suggestions etc > would be appreciated too. > > Regards, > > Ed Butler > 49pence.com - The Web Hosting Specialists > 0870 141 7149 > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
