Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 10:32:49 -0400 From: "Troy Settle" <troy@psknet.com> To: "'Matthew D. Fuller'" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>, "'Ted Cabeen'" <secabeen@pobox.com> Cc: 'martin mcflysr' <martin@mcflysr.kurgan.ru> Subject: RE: mailserver for 2,500 users on Intel platform Message-ID: <003501c31180$e0555280$aa8ffea9@abyss> In-Reply-To: <20030503010017.GF27042@over-yonder.net>
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Agreed. I typically see 1MB per user on average, even with 10% of the people using webmail. YMMV. Also, Mail is not CPU or Memory intensive. It's IO intensive if anything, and not even that with just 2500 users. I'd run that on just about anything over a PPRO with at least 128MB RAM. But, if you're going to engage in any antivirus or antispam scanning, then you'll need more CPU/RAM. My AV machine (PIII/1GHZ/512MB) keeps up with ~5k users (~20k messages a day) without breaking a sweat, though it did manage to destroy a brand new 7200RPM ATA100 HD in about 6 months. -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks http://www.psknet.com 540.994.4254 ~ 866.477.5638 Pulaski Chamber 2002 Small Business Of The Year > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Matthew D. Fuller > Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 9:00 PM > To: Ted Cabeen > Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; martin mcflysr > Subject: Re: mailserver for 2,500 users on Intel platform > > > 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" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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