From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 19 10:17:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1DE737B401 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:17:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [207.200.153.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 257F543F75 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:17:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 18vgd1-00034F-00; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 08:41:23 -0800 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 08:41:10 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: Bill Vermillion Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maximum recommended user limits on mail server In-Reply-To: <20030319140557.GA16125@wjv.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Bill Vermillion wrote: > A person I know is looking to have a mail server with 10K-15K > accounts and 50 virtual domains. > > He's thinking he needs to go with 'big iron' such as SUN. Well, if he wants to waste money.... 10 to 15K accounts is not a lot accounts. Plus, "Sun big iron" comes with such slow processors. For instance, the 2.4Ghz Xeon is going to be faster than any single Sun processor. You'll need a quad Ultrasparc to keep up with a basic dual Xeon (like Dell Poweredge 2650). > ISTR that I've seen many systems discussed on this list with user > counts far higher than that running on BSD systems. My /etc/master.passwd has 27,500 entries. This is on a dual P3-1Ghz. It is not really loaded. I will run out of disk space before, the CPUs get bogged down. > Any pointers to references or a quick summary of your server > for systems which match the above would be appreciated. > > Thanks. > > Bill > -- > Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message