On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:20, Torsten Krueger wrote: > Hmm - watch out for the load qpopper produces. Since the sendmail/qpopper > combination uses mbox a users mailbox is copied every time the mbox is > accessed. If you have large mailboxes (e.g. no quota an users leave mail > on server) this can produce a significant load.
You are correct, any pop server which uses mbox stores will cause very high system load, and qpopper is worse than some other pop servers. I was just looking at the concept rather than the details when I wrote my previous quick email. You and Craig are right about the benefits of Maildir. > I would see no problems with that. If you can make sure that the popper > produces the load I'd suggest moving to Maildir for storage of the users > mailboxes and perhaps Postfix with Courier Pop3d. I agree totally. > > 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/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark > > Try this one and look what type of the system is the reason for the > problems. ;) -- 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]
