Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 12:47:48 -0700 From: Ted Cabeen <ted@impulse.net> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: martin mcflysr <martin@mcflysr.kurgan.ru> Subject: Re: mailserver for 2,500 users on Intel platform Message-ID: <20030505194748.3674C28@gray.impulse.net> In-Reply-To: <20030503010017.GF27042@over-yonder.net> References: <20030503010017.GF27042@over-yonder.net> <929978883.20030430114541@mcflysr.kurgan.ru> <871xzkaqqt.fsf@gray.impulse.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In message <20030503010017.GF27042@over-yonder.net>, "Matthew D. Fuller" writes : >On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 09:34:34AM -0700 I heard the voice of >Ted Cabeen, and lo! it spake thus: >> >> 2500 users is nothing. You could do that on any machine bigger than >> 500Mhz with 256MB of memory without any problems. Disk should be how >> ever much you think you'll need. On average, each user will eat up >> about 5MB of disk space with POP accounts, and somewhat more with >> IMAP. > >You're crazy 8-} > >I've run that many users on a Pentium Pro 180 with 128 megs of RAM, on a >4 gig disk. Yeah, I was erring on the side of caution. With mail loads increasing every month, you want to plan for some growth. :) >Of course, it was pretty full on disk space, but it was loafing along on >the rest. That sounds about right. :) - -- Ted Cabeen http://www.pobox.com/~secabeen ted@impulse.net Check Website or Keyserver for PGP/GPG Key BA0349D2 secabeen@pobox.com "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." -F. Bacon secabeen@cabeen.org "Human kind cannot bear very much reality."-T.S.Eliot cabeen@netcom.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE+tr/koayJfLoDSdIRAqAzAKDQvyXSmITDtg6qETazZ6Z09qoJmACgoJcx +1CK05jc8DqdP5OR5tqgjlE= =WkjO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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