On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Scott wrote: > > No performance issues using vm-pop3d, exim (MTA), apache and > > OpenWebMail with around 10,000 email accounts on similar hardware. > > 10,000 email accounts on a similar machine? Man, I must be doing > something wrong! I assume you are running Debian? Sounds more and more
In fact, that similar machine is Red Hat Linux 7.2 on i386 hardware. (But have also done similar with Debian, BSD/OS and others.) > to me like a Red Hat and sendmail problem in my case if I can't handle > 2,300 mail accounts. Red Hat Linux and Debian Linux should have near same performance. (A difference could be the filesystem used and how it is used.) > > In the past, when using qpopper with 10-15,000 accounts, I improved > > performance by using qpopper "server" mode. > > I tried that and the qpopper stopped responding after about 30 minutes and > the Outlook users would get the xinetd error. What xinetd error? (You can configure xinetd for many connections.) > Thank you to everyone who responded, it is obvious that I need to get a > Debian box up and see how it performs under this load, I am sure it will > do much better. I don't see how the performance could be much different when using the same software. (But many find that Debian is usually easier to administer.) Jeremy C. Reed ...................................................... ISP-FAQ.com -- find answers to your questions http://www.isp-faq.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]