On 15 May 98, at 15:55, Peter Chen wrote:
> - Now am I too ambitious?
Naaa !! not at all :)
> - Can a Red Hat Linux box handle the load of a heavy mail server serving
> 4000+ clients? - Can a stock Red Hat 5.0 sendmail 8.8.7 handle so many
> users, for example, more than 2000 concurrent SMTP connections? Or should
> I recompile the sendmail? - Should I patch kernel 2.0.33 with
> file-descriptor patch and recompile a new kernel? - Can a Pentium II
> 233Mhz, Intel 440LX chipset, 256MB RAM, Asustek SC875 UW SCSI controller,
> two IBM Ultrastar 9GB UW SCSI hard disks do the job?
>
> Can someone please give me some advices?
For sure !
I use to work on an ISP that has more than 8000 clients :). The Box is a
Redhat 5.0 Dual Pentium Pro 200MHz 256MB RAM, and it works really good.
We had to patch the kernel with the file-descriptor patch though. Sendmail is
also 8.8.7 that comes with Redhat installation (no modification done). For
POP3 I'm using qpopper-2.4. With a little of time and pacience you can
configure the server to run really smooth.
PD: I still give Linux support for this ISP :)
> Thanks for your kind advice in advance.
>
> Peter
You're welcome !
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