[28980] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: pop server in an ISP environment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Tue May 30 06:55:33 2000
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 18:53:23 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Muljawan Hendrianto <muljawan.hendrianto@siemens.com.sg>
Cc: "Roeland Meyer (E-mail)" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, May 30, 2000, Muljawan Hendrianto wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> thanks to everybody who has replied to my email !
> Yes, my sole concern is actually the performance of my pop server when my pop3 users base getting larger.
> But I think with a E250/220 running having 2 CPUs , 1MB of RAM, around 200GB HD I should be able to handle up to 20000 pop3 users easily, shouldn't I ?
> Roeland, you mentioned in your email about XTND XMIT, may I know what is that ?
> And about HA for Qpopper, are you saying that you have HA agent for Qpopper ?
>
> thanks,
> Muljawan
It depends entirely upon the useage. My little 386 gateway box could
handle 20,000 pop3 users easily, but probably only a handful simultaneously.
And then, it depends upon how big their mailboxes are, and what
pop / mail software you are using, how you lay the mailboxes out on disk,
how you've tweaked at OS you're running, whether someone spilt goats blood
over the SCSI setup first, etc ...
There really isn't a simple answer to this kind of question.
Adrian
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