From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 13 19:11:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA14719 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:11:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA14653 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:11:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA19464; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:10:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:10:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jacques Hugo cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will FBSD take the punch on this one? In-Reply-To: <3508D38D.41C67EA6@wired.ctech.ac.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Jacques Hugo wrote: > I've been considering this for a while now. > Mercury on our Netware boxes works "most" of > the time. But how would FBSD take the punch > if I set up a pop3/imap4 server that will host > about 20 000 clients? > > I need a stable platform for my users to send > and retrieve mail via pop2/3/imap4. > > Stupid question(going to get flamed for this;) : > Can FBSD handle that load? Any extra kernel > configs needed? Should. What's the anticipated simultaneous load? I'd suggest buying an Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B or + for your Ethernet card, lots of RAM, and a good connection. Max out the limits in /etc/login.conf and bump maxusers to 64. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message