Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 23:07:48 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Andrew Reid" <andrew.reid@plug.cx>, "John Martinez" <john@mtbiker.net> Cc: "Clayton Tycksen" <clay@tycksen.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: web email Message-ID: <006301c11599$4b9c5240$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <996094507.6701.17.camel@percible.alfred.cx>
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I've been working on a "recipe" for installing IMP and I've given it out to a few people who seem to have found it of value. The docs that are supplied with it are pretty bad as far as setting it up. Andrew would you post your Perl script to pull out sessions from the database? Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andrew Reid >Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 1:55 PM >To: John Martinez >Cc: Clayton Tycksen; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: web email > > >On 25 Jul 2001 17:01:11 -0700, John Martinez wrote: > >> I'm going to be playing with IMP pretty soon on my FreeBSD 4.3 server. >> >> http://www.horde.org/imp/ >> >> Don't think it's in the ports collection, though (at least I couldn't >> find it). I have a friend who runs it in FreeBSD and likes it. > >IMP is excellent. You do have to watch out for one thing that can slow >down you SQL database: > >As IMP 2.2 uses PHPLib (http://phplib.netuse.de) for session management, >state sessions can quickly mount up in the SQL database, causing some >performance issues. > >There are two ways to go about it. Ones prevention, and the other's a >cure. One would prevent this from happening by ensuring "Logout" was >"clicked" every time a user finishes their session. This causes PHPLib >to remove the session data from the SQL database. > >The cure is to write a bit of ([Pp]erl|[Pp]ython) to login and remove >all the sessions (in the middle of the night, of course). > >That problem only really surfaces when you've got more than about 200 >users accessing it regularly. I base my knowledge on experience with a >system with ~1000 regular users. That's fairly small compared to some of >the sites that IMP runs on :-) > > - andrew > >-- >void signature () { > cout << "Andrew Reid -- andrew.reid@plug.cx" << endl ; > cout << "Cell: +61 401 946 813" << endl; > cout << "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur" << endl; >} > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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