We run a single dell 2850 (2-dual @ 2.8GHz, 8gb ram and 900gb internal). have about 29k users... but our message transfer load is much smaller than what you describe... may be in the order of 10k.... the systems is at 80+ idle most of the time.
We will have this setup for about 1 yr now... no major problems. -- -- -- Rafael Mahecha E-mail Administrator Office of Information Management Jackson State University JSU e-Center 1230 Raymond Road Jackson, MS 39204 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (601)-979-1783 http://www.jsums.edu On Thu, October 4, 2007 1:04 pm, Vincent Fox wrote: > > Wondering if anyone out there is running a LARGE Cyrus > user-base on a single or a couple of systems? > > Let me define large: > > 25K-30K (or more) users per system > High email activity, say 2+ million emails a day > > We have talked to UCSB, which is running 30K users on a single > Sun V490 system. However they seem to have fairly low activity > levels with emails in the hundred-thousands range not millions. > > So far that's the only other place we've talked to. Everyone else > seems to spread out 5K users on a large number of backends. > > We have 60K users, and were trying to run them spread across > 2 systems and ran into problems when Fall quarter started and > the load just skyrocketed. Email volume today 3.6 million. > > > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html >
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