"Duane Schaub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes - but how many users (on a typical ISP) will this support? My > experience with NFS suggests that the number is less than 10000 accounts. > In an early trial, reguardless of load, checking a POP account required > 10-15seconds each. Normally, the same check is instantaneous on local > drives. On the pop server, we normally have 5-10 simultaneous sessions on > POP with about 200 per minute. On NFS, we could only process 100 > connections per minute and the number of simultaneous connections jumps to > 40+. After several minutes, the simultaneous conns started exscalating and > the server crashes at 500. The same machine has no problem on local hard > drive even during heavy spammings.
I had a setup with Maildirs on NFS that supported about 700,000 mailboxes without breaking much of a sweat. The trick is a good NFS server (we used NetApps) and a good NFS client (we used Solaris). ----ScottG.
