Re: Is there a limit to number of mailboxes in cyrus

2005-09-09 Thread Sergio Devojno Bruder
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: FWIW, I've experimented with 750k mailboxes on a single system with 8GB RAM and we plan to put that number in production in a couple of months here. Ouch, 750k? How many concurrent accesses? We currently have 1.6M, 1.2M and 940k mailboxes in 3 boxes with f

Re: Is there a limit to number of mailboxes in cyrus

2005-09-09 Thread John Madden
>> FWIW, I've experimented with 750k mailboxes on a single system with 8GB RAM >> and >> we >> plan to put that number in production in a couple of months here. > > Ouch, 750k? How many concurrent accesses? Most likely less than a thousand. John -- John Madden UNIX Systems Engineer Ivy T

Re: Is there a limit to number of mailboxes in cyrus

2005-09-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 08 Sep 2005, Sergio Devojno Bruder wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >On Thu, 08 Sep 2005, John Madden wrote: > >>>We stored ~50'000 boxes on a single FreeBSD 4.x machine for a couple > >>>of years. It was a dual Pentium 3, Tyan server motherboard, Intel > >>>server network card

Re: Is there a limit to number of mailboxes in cyrus

2005-09-08 Thread Rob Mueller
FWIW, I've experimented with 750k mailboxes on a single system with 8GB RAM and we plan to put that number in production in a couple of months here. Ouch, 750k? How many concurrent accesses? We currently have 1.6M, 1.2M and 940k mailboxes in 3 boxes with fiber to a single emc storage, al

Re: Is there a limit to number of mailboxes in cyrus

2005-09-08 Thread Sergio Devojno Bruder
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 08 Sep 2005, John Madden wrote: We stored ~50'000 boxes on a single FreeBSD 4.x machine for a couple of years. It was a dual Pentium 3, Tyan server motherboard, Intel server network cards with 2gb of ram, adaptec 2100 raid controller and fast scsi disk

Re: Is there a limit to number of mailboxes in cyrus

2005-09-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 08 Sep 2005, John Madden wrote: > > We stored ~50'000 boxes on a single FreeBSD 4.x machine for a couple > > of years. It was a dual Pentium 3, Tyan server motherboard, Intel > > server network cards with 2gb of ram, adaptec 2100 raid controller > > and fast scsi disks. The system and mailb

Re: Is there a limit to number of mailboxes in cyrus

2005-09-08 Thread John Madden
> We've got the idea from somewhere that the size of the mailbox list does > affect the memory used by each process. No? I've seen that it can, depending on your berkeley settings, but even for our 750k accounts our mailboxes.db was only ~450MB. I imagine that'd be shared between all imapd pro

Re: Is there a limit to number of mailboxes in cyrus

2005-09-08 Thread Joseph Brennan
--On Thursday, September 8, 2005 9:37 -0400 Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Remember, the number of mailboxes isn't as important as the number of concurrent connections. The number of mailboxes just impacts the amount of storage, the number of concurrent connections impacts both th

Re: Is there a limit to number of mailboxes in cyrus

2005-09-08 Thread Ken Murchison
Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 19:14, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: Hi, --On 6. September 2005 18:14:27 +0530 Ramprasad A Padmanabhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a cyrus server running linux RHEL3 with around 4000 mailboxes. we have about 30,000 users using the

Re: Is there a limit to number of mailboxes in cyrus

2005-09-08 Thread John Madden
> We stored ~50'000 boxes on a single FreeBSD 4.x machine for a couple > of years. It was a dual Pentium 3, Tyan server motherboard, Intel > server network cards with 2gb of ram, adaptec 2100 raid controller > and fast scsi disks. The system and mailbox disks where separated. FWIW, I've experiment

Re: Is there a limit to number of mailboxes in cyrus

2005-09-08 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
Hi, --On 8. September 2005 11:02:25 +0530 Ramprasad A Padmanabhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 19:14, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: Hi, --On 6. September 2005 18:14:27 +0530 Ramprasad A Padmanabhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a cyrus server running linux RHEL3 wit

Re: Is there a limit to number of mailboxes in cyrus

2005-09-08 Thread Thomas Vogt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 08.09.2005 um 07:32 schrieb Ramprasad A Padmanabhan: On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 19:14, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: Hi, --On 6. September 2005 18:14:27 +0530 Ramprasad A Padmanabhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a cyrus server running linux RH

Re: Is there a limit to number of mailboxes in cyrus

2005-09-07 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 19:14, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > Hi, > > --On 6. September 2005 18:14:27 +0530 Ramprasad A Padmanabhan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a cyrus server running linux RHEL3 with around 4000 mailboxes. > > we have about 30,000 users using the same OS, using the R

Re: Is there a limit to number of mailboxes in cyrus

2005-09-06 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
Hi, --On 6. September 2005 18:14:27 +0530 Ramprasad A Padmanabhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a cyrus server running linux RHEL3 with around 4000 mailboxes. we have about 30,000 users using the same OS, using the RPMs from . ( Sing

Is there a limit to number of mailboxes in cyrus

2005-09-06 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
Hi, I have a cyrus server running linux RHEL3 with around 4000 mailboxes. ( Single machine 2GB Ram dual-cpu with RAID ). Most of the users (90%) use pop to read their mails The problem is with frequent corruption of mailboxes. I have to reconstruct the mailboxes and then runs fine again. Is the