Thanks for the information. I know 9-10 msg/sec is a slow speed. I am working on it by trying different things.
Su -----Original Message----- From: Carsten Hoeger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: September 27, 2002 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how many users can Cyrus server support? -- is 5.5 msg/sec sl ow? On Fri, Sep 27, Su Li wrote: > Yes MTA is a problem. When I stop sending emails and let Cyrus IMAP finish > the mails queued in Sendmail, I got more that 20 messages per second. > > I have tried to use Postfix. Probebly because I didn't setup Postfix right > (I use every thing default), I didn't get better performance than using > Sendmail. I got 25msg/second on an 0815 desktop Athlon XP1900 with just a single IDE disk using postfix and cyrus-imapd using LDAP based mail routing. -- With best regards, Carsten Hoeger SuSE, The Linux Experts, http://www.suse.com Key fingerprint = E3B6 7FDB 4800 0F22 DC09 EB2B 7988 B6A8 6691 C94A