On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 09:30:46AM -0500, Brent Rigsby wrote: > We have only 200 people using this at the moment
The number of users often isn't the biggest issue. You can have 199 moderate users but if one person has a couple of thousand e-mails in their inbox then everybody suffers every time that one person checks their mail. Your system needs to be able to cope with the heaviest users, not just the average ones. > and was thinking on > splitting the processes alittle by moving the scripts and files to another > server and just let this one handle mail but we are not sure if squirrel > mail handles this type of setup. It surely does. Just put the ip address of the mail server into config.php. The IMAP protocol puts a lot more load on a connection than POP does. Squirrel is also quite CPU-intensive when processing mailboxes. If you have the mail daemon and webmail client on one machine then the load caused by one can slow down the other. This can cause a vicious circle because I've noticed that while Squirrel is waiting for a connection to return data it is very CPU-heavy (possibly this is PHP's fault). So the slower the mail server is in returning a result, the greater the load that Squirrel imposes on the box, thus making the mail server even slower in a vicious circle. So do move the web client to a different box. Also, see what you can do to speed up the way the mail server processes mailboxes with many messages in. If you have maildir mail storage, for example, you should consider using a filesystem that isn't slowed down by having many files in a directory. -- Bruce ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
