<quote who="Paul Elliott"> > >> Wow 5000 users on this one little machine with only 512 memory. If I had >> to take a guess I would say to add 2 or maybe even 3 gigs of ram to this >> machine. Probly just adding more ram alone will solve alot of your >> problems. > > Almost certainly. I'm also considering moving SM to another box from the > rest of the e-mail server. > > Have a look at: - > > http://rotor.bishopb-college.ac.uk/stats > > Shows our servers MRTG stats. Ignore the 'Apache Processes' graph as this > stopped working when I put the latest (2.6.5) kernel on the box (Wednesday > week 14.) The 'Load' graph is quite interesting (at least to geeky people > like myself!!) It shows that the server load halfed when we upgraded to > the 2.6 kernel. It does seem a lot quicker as well to end-users. > >> I am finding with this server that squirrelmail is pushing out its >> webpages faster than the client computer can handle it. I notice on the >> client computers when using SM that the cpu shoots up to 100% for a >> second >> or 2 like its getting bombarded with more information than it can >> handle. >> Or maybe this is becuse IE just cant handle it. I might try using >> firebird >> and see if I get the same results. > > I can verify that. IE doesn't seem to be able to render SM output as fast > as FireFox, certainly on the local network at least. > >> Well if your server can handle 5000 users mine can sure handle 35 users >> no >> problem. this server never even brakes a sweat when I hit the showall in >> a >> mailbox that has say 500 emails in it. > > Shouldn't have any problems at all. I've just checked the server and its > not even 3Ghz, its 2.4Ghz. Its a Dell PE2650, only extra is dedicated > hardware raid. > >> I am more woried about if the network can handle this sort of trafic >> more >> than anything. > > Do you mean traffic to the server, or across your switches/hubs etc? We've > found that bandwidth really isn't an issue on the server, even at 100 meg. > We keep stats on network usage to every server so if you like I could dig > out a report on it. > > --- > Paul Elliott, Network Technician > Bishop Burton College (01964) 553000 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > -- > 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 > >
Good info sir. You were a lot of help I sure am thankful to you. Quote: ----------------- Do you mean traffic to the server, or across your switches/hubs etc? ----------------- I am worried about the traffic going accross the sitches. We are running a gigabit backbone but just the same it might have some effects. Wow that was really cool about how after you updated your kernel to 2.6 it cut the work of your server down by half. Whooo that is really cool. I sure love MRTG it does a good job. I have it setup on one of my test boxes at home. For all outside traffic for SQ mail I was planning on setting up a second box to run SQ mail on just for security reasons alone. I have a 300Mhz box that will do the trick. I will probly create a script that will copy the entire contents of the SQ mail data directory from the email server to the public SQ mail server once or twice a week. I have heard that there is some things that can be done to tighten up SQ and php. Here is 2 things I do right off the bat with a new php install in the file /etc/php.ini display_errors = Off display_startup_errors = Off I have had to also up the memory limit per php script to memory_limit = 16M -- Avery ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- 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
