Re: [Dovecot] reason to switch to 1.1

2008-04-29 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:49:43AM +0200, Cor Bosman wrote: > > How large are the (individual) mailboxes you're hosting there? > > Most of them are max 500MB, but average use is much less. It's a little > difficult to calculate because almost all POP users empty their mailbox. > We did some report

Re: [Dovecot] reason to switch to 1.1

2008-04-29 Thread Cor Bosman
> How large are the (individual) mailboxes you're hosting there? Most of them are max 500MB, but average use is much less. It's a little difficult to calculate because almost all POP users empty their mailbox. We did some reports a few months ago where it showed that average mailbox size for POP u

Re: [Dovecot] reason to switch to 1.1

2008-04-29 Thread Chris Laif
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Cor Bosman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just in case I understand you wrong: You're serving 20k concurrent > > users with 1 (one) server? > > Wait, I think I misunderstood you. We do not have just 1 imap server. > We have 30 imap servers (a little overdimensio

Re: [Dovecot] reason to switch to 1.1

2008-04-29 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 09:42:10AM +0200, Cor Bosman wrote: > Actually..it's 2 NetApp 6070s. But those are not just simple servers. > They are very expensive, dedicated NFS boxes each taking up a full rack > doing multiple terrabytes each, connected with multiple gbit links. > > It's 99.99% maildi

Re: [Dovecot] reason to switch to 1.1

2008-04-29 Thread Cor Bosman
> Just in case I understand you wrong: You're serving 20k concurrent > users with 1 (one) server? Wait, I think I misunderstood you. We do not have just 1 imap server. We have 30 imap servers (a little overdimensioned at this time). I was just showing the graph of one of them. The others look sim

Re: [Dovecot] reason to switch to 1.1

2008-04-29 Thread Cor Bosman
> > This specific server is a dual core 2.8ghz xeon with hyperthreading > > running on FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE. We have over 1 million mailboxes, with about > > 75,000 daily active users. At peak maybe 20,000 concurrent, in a mix of > > webmail and direct imap. (no POP, thats handled by different s

Re: [Dovecot] reason to switch to 1.1

2008-04-29 Thread Chris Laif
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Cor Bosman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It may be good to list your hardware, user count, mailbox backend, and > > file system information, as I suppose that this kind of improvement is not > > universal. > > This specific server is a dual core 2.8ghz xeon wi

Re: [Dovecot] reason to switch to 1.1

2008-04-28 Thread Marc Perkel
Very persuasive. So what is the conversion process like tp go to 1.1? Cor Bosman wrote: We've been running 1.1 on about half of our servers for about a week now. Ive mailed before that I was pleasantly surprised by its better use of resources. Here's a graph showing that fact. Server load in the

Re: [Dovecot] reason to switch to 1.1

2008-04-28 Thread Cor Bosman
> > We've been running 1.1 on about half of our servers for about a week now. > > Ive mailed before that I was pleasantly surprised by its better use of > > resources. Here's a graph showing that fact. Server load in the last 10 > > days. > > It may be good to list your hardware, user count, mailb

Re: [Dovecot] reason to switch to 1.1

2008-04-28 Thread Anders
Cor Bosman wrote: > We've been running 1.1 on about half of our servers for about a week now. > Ive mailed before that I was pleasantly surprised by its better use of > resources. Here's a graph showing that fact. Server load in the last 10 > days. It may be good to list your hardware, user count

[Dovecot] reason to switch to 1.1

2008-04-28 Thread Cor Bosman
We've been running 1.1 on about half of our servers for about a week now. Ive mailed before that I was pleasantly surprised by its better use of resources. Here's a graph showing that fact. Server load in the last 10 days. http://uwimages.smugmug.com/photos/286355874_9FNp2-L.png Cor