Greg Moeller writes:
> Now, we called Sun, asking about a high capacity disk solution, one that might
> help with the IO problems. (cache on the disk array to take care of all the
> fsyncs Qmail does)
> They told us that around 50k-60k mailboxes is about the limit of Qmail.
They have no clue. I've designed multiple sites with close to a
milllion mailboxes running on Sun hardware (well, okay, one of them is
just starting up, but it's designed for five million mailboxes).
> Now, my question to all of you is how expandable is Qmail, and what's the best
> way to do it?
Just the way you're doing it: single mailstore with multiple front-ends.
> We're looking to expand the system to 150,000-200,000 mailboxes.
>
> How does Qmail deal with a single storage array linked to multiple load
> balenced servers?
Very well.
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