I've been playing with qmail ldap for a few weeks.  I have a small cluster 
running on high-end Pentium servers with a 2 servers in the cluster.  One of 
the servers also runs the openldap server.  We found from testing that

1. 500 messages/minute was the max/server input we could achieve (started at 
531 and then went to 500 for each minute thereafter)
2. Total Transfer was about 50mb/min/server
3. The openldap server stopped responding to queries after the first 1 minute
4. All mail was queued, and eventually delivered (albeit SLOWLY).  The ldap 
server seemed to recover, but it didn't seem up to the task of being 
"blasted" for this test.

I didn't run the test past 5 minutes because the queue was growing very 
quickly, and I at least got some numbers to test with.

I thought I would pass this on.  The machine was tested 35,000 users in the 
ldap server.  Since we want the ldap server to handle about 140,000 accounts, 
the servers not responding and SLOWNESS of eventual delivery has made us 
rethink using qmail ldap.  Any other real world experience out there?

Just curious.

Aaron

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