Re: cyrus server sizing

2002-01-11 Thread Jeremy Howard
Stuart Krivis wrote: > This may be a place where it is more cost-effective to use one of the > commercial LDAP servers. Solaris comes with a license for 200,000-user > iPlanet Directory Server. With the number of auths/sec that you need, you > will want a very high-performance auth mechanism. > We

Re: cyrus server sizing

2002-01-11 Thread Guy Middleton
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:38:00PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Do you know which auth mechanism will be used? If MySQL/LDAP, you'll have > to scale the corresponding servers/services/software accordingly. We haven't decided yet, but it will be running on its own separate hardware.

OT: LDAP performance (was: Re: cyrus server sizing)

2002-01-11 Thread birger
Stuart Krivis schrieb am Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:50:35AM -0500: [...] * > * >Do you know which auth mechanism will be used? If MySQL/LDAP, you'll have * >to scale the corresponding servers/services/software accordingly. * > * * * This may be a place where it is more cost-effective to use one of

Re: cyrus server sizing

2002-01-11 Thread Jim Howell
Hi, The main issues to consider when sizing a mail system are: - quota per user, and percentage full the "average" user will have their mailbox, the way they access their mail for reading also matters. You can get away with significantly less storage for a POP implementation versus an

Re: cyrus server sizing

2002-01-11 Thread Stuart Krivis
--On Friday, January 11, 2002 01:38:00 PM +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * We have a degenerate case, in which a large number of users are > expected to * access a mail store which is empty most of the time. > * > * quota limit:100kB > * people reading mail pe

Re: cyrus server sizing

2002-01-11 Thread birger
Guy Middleton schrieb am Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:36:02PM -0800: * On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:02:21PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * > The problem is more complex. You have to provide some details to get answers * > that make sense: * > * > - what is the quota limit of each user? * * > [ ...

Re: cyrus server sizing

2002-01-10 Thread Guy Middleton
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:02:21PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem is more complex. You have to provide some details to get answers > that make sense: > > - what is the quota limit of each user? > [ ... ] In this particular instance it is actually easy for us to come up with the

Re: cyrus server sizing

2002-01-10 Thread birger
Guy Middleton schrieb am Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:06:27PM -0800: * On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:28:03PM -0500, Lawrence Greenfield wrote: * >Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:37:45 -0800 * >From: Guy Middleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * > * >Does anybody know where I can find server sizing requirement

Re: cyrus server sizing

2002-01-10 Thread Guy Middleton
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:28:03PM -0500, Lawrence Greenfield wrote: >Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:37:45 -0800 >From: Guy Middleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Does anybody know where I can find server sizing requirements for a Cyrus >deployment? > >The installation would be about 100

Re: cyrus server sizing

2002-01-10 Thread Lawrence Greenfield
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:37:45 -0800 From: Guy Middleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Does anybody know where I can find server sizing requirements for a Cyrus deployment? The installation would be about 100,000 mailboxes, using POP3 only (no IMAP). We would be using either Sun hardwar