Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

[Bob Drzyzgula]

On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 08:53:36PM -0400, Steve Glines wrote:
> Actually Linux or free BDS can easely handle over 10000 pop3 users. We
> use 2 incomming systems for anti-spam etc, 2 hosts for pop mail
> reading/www etc, and 2 outgoing systems to service 15000 users. Our
> systems don't breath very hard. We have 233MH pentium II, fast wide scsi
> disks and 256MB ram on our "standard" systems. Based on our experiance I
> believe thgis setup should be able to easely handle ~ 120000 users.
> 
> SG
> (systems architect Ziplink)

Just curious, how many users simultaneous, usually?


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