Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 20:00:17 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Ted Cabeen <secabeen@pobox.com> Cc: martin mcflysr <martin@mcflysr.kurgan.ru> Subject: Re: mailserver for 2,500 users on Intel platform Message-ID: <20030503010017.GF27042@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <871xzkaqqt.fsf@gray.impulse.net> References: <929978883.20030430114541@mcflysr.kurgan.ru> <871xzkaqqt.fsf@gray.impulse.net>
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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. Of course, it was pretty full on disk space, but it was loafing along on the rest. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"
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