Vchkpw handles 10k users just fine in it's current version. I'm running 200
virtual domains totaling about 10k pop accounts on a p2/300 with 256mb ram,
a couple scsi-2 drives, Apache 1.3.4, SQWebmail 0.20 on FreeBSD 3.1 and it
runs like a top. No complaints in the slightest from here as far as
performance goes. I was thinking of looking at hacking vchkpw to handle a
cdb style password file instead of flat text however. While I'm doing fine
now, the business is growing and I want to be sure I can continue when I
hit 15k+.
Steve
Robin Bowes writes:
> This isn't an answer to the original question - just some thoughts...
>
> How would vchkpw perform in this situation? (http://www.inter7.com/vchkpw/)
> Presumably, the vpasswd file would be the bottleneck? Is it possible to use
> vchkpw with a DB of some sort, eg CDB? Presumably, this would involve
> hacking vchkpw appropriately?
>
> R.
>
> Chris McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > My company wants to provide users on the internet with a free email
> > service ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). We'll be starting off with about
> > 3,000 users, potentially growing up to 10,000 in the next 12 months.
> >
> > How feasible is it to create a passwd/shadow entry for each user,
> > providing them with POP/IMAP access ? (or maybe just pop if imap puts
> > too much load on the server).
> >
> > With the passwd and shadow files containing so many entries, will the
> > password lookups take forever ?
> >
> > Our current server spec is a PIII 400, 256M, but we'll replace it with a
> > high spec server if/when needed.
> >
> > Does this sound OK, or should we look at buying (or developing) hotmail
> > style software instead ?
> >
> >
> > Any ideas/comments appreciated,
> > .Chris.
> >
> >
>
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