That's good feedback. On a curious note: - what is the total diskspace usage for all mail users? - what is the hardware (mailserver and squirrelmail) and load on it? - Do you have quota for your users? - What is the limit of attachment size and does users want bigger ones?
thanks, -rkl > rlk wrote: >> I know that prefs can be stored on disk or mysql. Lets say >> hypothetically, >> there are 100,000 users on sm. Anyone thinks that there would be issues >> with having it on disk file system instead of mysql or vice versa? > > We're using the file system here @ Cornell and with approximately 8000 > users using SquirrelMail on a daily basis (20,529 created accounts) and to > date I haven't seen any issues. Disk I/O isn't a performance factor and > currently we're only using 52M of disk space. > > For me I prefer the file system over the database backend because: > 1) It's one less piece of software or maintain, secure, operate, and > document > 2) It's easier for me to manipulate text files on a disk than whip up > complex SQL queries. It's the perl in me :) > > My only concern with the file system is when we end up clustering the > SquirrelMail machines to meet demand (I plan to share the data partition > across the clustered web servers) . Some strange and interesting things > should happen if the load balancer doesn't work like it's supposed to. ;) > > Lee > > > > -- > "If she were white and male, she would be David Duke,� Professor Emeritus > Peter Swartz, commenting on Cynthia McKinney > (http://www.cornellreview.org/viewart.cgi?num=304) > > See Cynthia McKinney ask for money Rudy Guiliani returned to the donor: > http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/103101/OPEDbarton.shtml > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- 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
