On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:51, Scott St. John wrote: > A few weeks ago we talked about me moving a server from BSDi to Debian. As > luck > would have it that BSDi server gave out last Monday and I had to move fast > to replace > it. Knowing I can do a RH install in about 30 minutes I went the route of > familiar > territory and installed 7.2 with Sendmail/QPopper/Apache/OpenWebMail. I am > paying > for that now with a huge performance problem. I am seeing Load Averages > spiking > above 6 during the day. Hardware is a Dual P3-600 with a gig of ram on a > IBM Netfinity Raid 5 controller. > > The owner of the company wants to go back to BSD, but I want to pursue > Debian. So the question is: is anyone running a similar set up with either > Sendmail or Posrtfix servicing 2,000+ email accounts with any performance > issues?
Apart from webmail that should be a trivial load. Webmail systems seem to take up lots of resources in my experience, is it an option to have a separate machine for webmail? -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
