On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:15:41 -0800, Micah Cowan wrote:
>instantaneous delivery - at least within our own company! I'm trying to aim
>for 1- or 2-minute delays at most (since that's what is configured as their
>mailbox-checking interval in their Outlooks).
[see previous msg for answer]
IMHO, 1-2 min interval is way to often. Even with rapid fire
communication, 5 min is plenty. Assume 6000 users, 1 min interval gets
you 100 pop3 connections/fork/authentications/fork/chdir/... per second
without really doing anything. Putting the interval at 5 min will
enable your server to support almost 5x as many users before it bottoms
out.
-Sincerely, Fred
(Frederik Lindberg, Infectious Diseases, WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA)
