At 03:09 PM 2/15/01 +0530, qmailu wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have setup a qmail box running
>qmail-1.03,vpopmail-4.9.6,courier-imap-0.36a. The authentication method is
>mysql. I have more than 2 million users. Before I move from my existing
>setup - I would like to be absolutely sure qmail can take this load. Are
>there many of you running qmail for more than 2 million users. How can I
>do the load testing (some load testing tools to the effect ! ) to confirm
>that my box will perform under maximum load ? Also what would be the ideal
>IMAP connects that I would need to setup as threshold - in my current
>setup we have about 500-600 simultaneous imap connects ! Can
>courier-imap take this load ?
Hotmail before they switched using Windows 2000, they were using qmail, and
they can handle at least 15 million accounts there.
Of course the key here to do distributed processing for the load, as you
won;t use just a single server to handle that load right ?
