Re: [Dovecot] Configuration advices for a 50000 mailboxes server(s)

2012-04-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/21/2012 4:52 AM, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 07:31:13PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >> This issue has come up twice on the Postfix list in less than a month. > > Oh, thanks! I'll look into those list posts.. I had mostly given up > solving this by rate limits and d

Re: [Dovecot] Configuration advices for a 50000 mailboxes server(s)

2012-04-21 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 07:31:13PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > This issue has come up twice on the Postfix list in less than a month. Oh, thanks! I'll look into those list posts.. I had mostly given up solving this by rate limits and decided to throw hardware at the problem when I saw the lo

Re: [Dovecot] Configuration advices for a 50000 mailboxes server(s)

2012-04-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/19/2012 4:40 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 4/17/2012 8:01 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote: > >> have 4000/6000 imaps concurent connections during working hours . for approx 50K "intensives" users. The only mandatory thing will be I must use HP proliant servers The operating s

Re: [Dovecot] Configuration advices for a 50000 mailboxes server(s)

2012-04-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/17/2012 3:08 PM, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > Our struggle is the number of > iops we're able to get from the backend storage (IBM DS4800), mostly > a problem when we have storms of incoming marketing messages in addition > to the pop/imap traffic. This issue has come up twice on the Postfix

Re: [Dovecot] Configuration advices for a 50000 mailboxes server(s)

2012-04-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/17/2012 8:01 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote: > have 4000/6000 imaps concurent connections during working hours . > > POP3 users will be very few How much disk space do you plan to offer per user mail directory? Will you be using quotas? >>> I need some feedbacks advices of experienced admins >>>

Re: [Dovecot] Configuration advices for a 50000 mailboxes server(s)

2012-04-17 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:10:02AM -0300, Mauricio López Riffo wrote: > > 1M = 1 milion ? 976508 to be exact :-) but it's very much a useless number. Lots and lots of these are inactive. A better number is probably that we're seeing about 80 logins/second for the last hour.. (just checked now, no

Re: [Dovecot] Configuration advices for a 50000 mailboxes server(s)

2012-04-17 Thread Cor Bosman
> Here we have approx. 200K users with 4000 concurrent connections > (90% POP3 users) All servers in virtual environment Vmware, supermicro > servers and Netapp Metrocluster storage solutions (nfs storage with 10G > ethernet network) POP3 sessions take betwen 40 and 300 milisecons at

Re: [Dovecot] Configuration advices for a 50000 mailboxes server(s)

2012-04-17 Thread Mauricio López Riffo
Jan, How do you measure "concurrent" POP3 users? We use cacti for metrics like concurrent connections or pop3 delay and Zabbix for alarms. What mailbox-format are you using? Do you have a director, or accounts sticky to a server some other way? Maildir like a mailformat and currently

Re: [Dovecot] Configuration advices for a 50000 mailboxes server(s)

2012-04-17 Thread Frank Bonnet
hello Thanks for your answer , MY problem will be IMAPS connections I dunno how much I will have but it would be possible that we'll have 4000/6000 imaps concurent connections during working hours . POP3 users will be very few Le 17/04/2012 13:54, Mauricio López Riffo a écrit : Frank, He

Re: [Dovecot] Configuration advices for a 50000 mailboxes server(s)

2012-04-17 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 08:54:15AM -0300, Mauricio López Riffo wrote: > > Here we have approx. 200K users with 4000 concurrent connections > (90% POP3 users) How do you measure "concurrent" POP3 users? > All servers in virtual environment Vmware, > supermicro servers and Netapp Metrocluster

Re: [Dovecot] Configuration advices for a 50000 mailboxes server(s)

2012-04-17 Thread Mauricio López Riffo
Frank, Here we have approx. 200K users with 4000 concurrent connections (90% POP3 users) All servers in virtual environment Vmware, supermicro servers and Netapp Metrocluster storage solutions (nfs storage with 10G ethernet network) POP3 sessions take betwen 40 and 300 milisecons at con

[Dovecot] Configuration advices for a 50000 mailboxes server(s)

2012-04-17 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I need some feedbacks advices of experienced admins I will have to setup in few monthes an email system for approx 50K "intensives" users. The only mandatory thing will be I must use HP proliant servers The operating system will be FreeBSD or Linux Thank you for any advices