efficiency drops when user exceed 5000+?

2004-06-09 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I have cyrus imapd runing now on my server. Today I heard people say when the user number exceed 5000+ the cyrus proformance drops in the way that unless many partitions ware made (what partition? file system partition?) to share the load. I'm pretty newbie on mail server

Re: efficiency drops when user exceed 5000+?

2004-06-09 Thread lst_hoe01
Zitat von Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello. I have cyrus imapd runing now on my server. Today I heard people say when the user number exceed 5000+ the cyrus proformance drops in the way that unless many partitions ware made (what partition? file system partition?) to share the load. I'm

Re: efficiency drops when user exceed 5000+?

2004-06-09 Thread Kevin Baker
I am a newby to, but learning. Couple things. what partition? file system.. This was likely referring to user partitioning. As your user base increases an alternative to beefing up your server, is to add addition machines to handle the load and partition the users. Basically setting up maildrops

Re: efficiency drops when user exceed 5000+?

2004-06-09 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I have cyrus imapd runing now on my server. Today I heard people say when the user number exceed 5000+ the cyrus proformance drops in the way that unless many partitions ware made (what partition? file system partition?) to share the load. I'm