[28982] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: pop server in an ISP environment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Muljawan Hendrianto)
Tue May 30 07:12:01 2000
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 19:09:53 +0800
From: Muljawan Hendrianto <muljawan.hendrianto@siemens.com.sg>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Hello Adrian,
I am agree with you, that we can't say exactly what is the best configuration to be used.
What I would like to have from the list is a rule of thumb in configuring a pop server.
thanks,
Muljawan
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 06:53:23PM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Adrian Chadd Build a man a fire, and he's warm for the
> <adrian@creative.net.au> rest of the evening. Set a man on fire and
> he's warm for the rest of his life.
