On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 10:14:15AM -0700, H wrote:
> I'm averaging 120,000+ emails (mostly mailing lists) a day on just an
> Ultra 10 333Mhz, 512MB Ram, and IDE HD's, and it rarely shows more than
> 1-2% utilization, so, I'm not sure that helps, but maybe it gives you
> some reference point to go on. It certainly seems your setup should be
> running far lower on utilization. Are you running it in inetd? or
> tcpserver? (etc).
One thing to note is that inbound mail typically consumes a *lot* more system
resources than outbound, especially if the outbound is mailing lists managed
by something qmail-friendly, like ezmlm.
Regards.
> -Hawke
>
> Greg Moeller wrote:
> >
> > Good day.
> > We're running Qmail as a mainline ISP mailserver.
> > Here's a few stats...
> > 420,000 Email on the server.
> > 27 Gig of disk space used for that Email.
> > 66,000 local mailboxes.
> > 300,000 Email delivered to local users/day.
> > 200,000 Email delivered to remote sites/day.
> > 600,000 POP mail accesses/day.
> > 750 Virtual domains hosted on the server.
> > 17,000 Mapping for those virtual domains.
> >
> > The box is an Ultra enterprise 450 with dual 330Mhz Ultrasparc II processors
> > and an A1000 RAID array.
> >
> > Now, this poor box during the day is running with a load between 10 and 20
