At 02:08 PM 3/18/02, Russell Coker wrote: >On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:12, Jason Lim wrote: > > > > 1 What is the max user limit that woody + exim will support > > > > > > It's WAY above 500. :-) > > > > It also seriously depends on what the hardware is. I think a 486/33 might > > have a bit of trouble coping with 500 (or lets say 200-300) simultaneous > > and concurrent users trying to check their email at the beginning of the > > work day. > >That depends on how many messages are waiting, whether the users leave mail >on the server, and whether they use mbox storage. > >If users leave mail on the server in mbox format, and they are emailing >around Word files etc then a new P3 machine with 1G of RAM and a RAID setup >of fast hard drives will have big problems. > >If the users do only plain-ascii mail with no big attachments, don't leave >their mail on the server, have a fast connection to the server, and Maildir >is used then 500 people logging on in a period of 10 minutes should work on a >486-33 with 64M of RAM.
I hadn't even thought of using a RAID set up. I haven't had any experience with them. Hmm.. looks like I asked the right question in the right place after all. Thanks Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
