Jake Vickers wrote:
On 2/27/2010 9:34 PM, MagicWISP Sales wrote:
Jake,
You are probably right, but we are a small ISP, and never will have a
large
mail server. If this server ever reaches 500 accounts I will be way more
than shocked. So this works well for us. The really nice thing is
restoral
- it's a snap. If I have a few thousand email accounts, it would be a
different story.
;) I do not consider 500 users large, but that does seem to be the break
point for virtual environments that I've seen to date.
I'd be curious about these installations.
.) is pop vs imap a factor?
.) courier or dovecot?
.) which VM host/version?
.) paravirtual HW?
.) I/O scheduling methods? (host and guest)
.) VM guests on separate HDs or partitions?
Of course, it's also important to know what (if any) tuning has already
been done.
BL, where/what is the bottleneck??
'Course it's hard to test anything, since I don't have 500 users laying
around that are willing to let me mess with their email....
That's a stumbling block all right. ;)
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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