My linux server has 2500+ accounts and is primarily used for mail. This is what free returns: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 582080 577256 4824 38472 190552 336512 -/+ buffers/cache: 50192 531888 Swap: 481416 5112 476304 582M might be a little over kill, but it operates very good. --Gavin Budd =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Network Specialist - Lewis-Clark State College V: 208-799-2215 F: 208-799-2842 Linux - Choice of a GNU Generation =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Yang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 7:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mail accounts and RAM We are using Linux mail server with 550 MHz CPU. Do you have any suggestion about how much memory can handle how many accounts on this server. Thanks Joseph -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.