Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

[Steve Glines]

Bob Drzyzgula wrote:

> On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 08:53:36PM -0400, Steve Glines wrote:
> > Actually Linux or free BDS can easely handle over 10000 pop3 users. We
> > use 2 incomming systems for anti-spam etc, 2 hosts for pop mail
> > reading/www etc, and 2 outgoing systems to service 15000 users. Our
> > systems don't breath very hard. We have 233MH pentium II, fast wide scsi
> > disks and 256MB ram on our "standard" systems. Based on our experiance I
> > believe thgis setup should be able to easely handle ~ 120000 users.
> >
> > SG
> > (systems architect Ziplink)
>
> Just curious, how many users simultaneous, usually?

Not sure on average but we've seen ~200 sendmail's and over 100 poppers at a
running simultanously. The systems are capable of performing 900
sendmail/minure and 300 poppers/minute each.

SG


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