On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Vincent Cheah wrote:
> I had finish install qmail+vpopmail+sqwebmail in one box , any idea or
> any tools to perform system stress test , like generate large mail
> traffic , http request ...etc.
>
> I would estimate this server to handle ~2000 client.
> My server config
> Pentium III 866MHz
> 512MB RAM
> 20GB*2 HD
> 2*10/100 NIC
I have a dual-proc PIII 500MHz, 512MB Ram, single 10/100 NIC, plus a
couple of SCSI disks for system and logging and a couple of mirrored
UDMA66 IDE disks on dedicated controllers for mail storage.
I've got about 12,000 folks using this with Postfix + Courier-IMAP/POP and
SqWebMail. djbdns for local DNS cache. I'm doing filtering on delivery
with maildrop, and using the quota features, both of which add a little
bit of load. We do something like 100k mails delivered a day.
But that isn't 2000 folks checking at once. You don't have enough RAM for
that ... and absolutely don't have enough disk I/O bandwidth ... but it is
certainly enough to handle mail delivery for that many users.
You'll probably find that with 2000 users you don't get more than 5-10
folks checking at the same time.
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Charlie Watts
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Frontier Internet, Inc.
http://www.frontier.net/
