[PLUG] Re: Email server performance

Robert Anderson riznob at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 19:27:56 UTC 2005


On 4/15/05, Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 10:59 -0700, Robert Anderson wrote:
> 
> > Any ideas of how I could address the performance problems? Should I
> > switch the users to pop3? Put a cap on mailbox size? Any help is
> > appreciated.
> 
> Add more disks, get faster disks, or move the filesystems around to
> distribute the load.  What is your storage subsystem like now? 

2 mirrored SATA disks, probably 10k rpm, not sure.

> I would
> definitely recommend against switching them to POP3 if you're using
> IMAP.  What IMAP server are you using? 

UW-imapd.

> Is this 180 concurrent users?

Concurrent mostly. 

> Wil
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