From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 12:25:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4817A37B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:25:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.mailix.net (smtp.mailix.net [216.148.213.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0498243E6E for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:25:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tapeworm@insekta.org) Received: from [12.246.29.145] (helo=cenobite.insekta.org) by smtp.mailix.net with asmtp (Exim 4.01) id 186cvE-0005dd-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:25:10 -0800 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:25:21 -0800 From: erk! To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max Email Users Message-Id: <20021029122521.27aceb05.tapeworm@insekta.org> In-Reply-To: <200210290928.AA453443832@mail.aplusdata.com> References: <200210290928.AA453443832@mail.aplusdata.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:28:08 -0500 "Anthony Abby" wrote: > Well that depends on exactly how your users are using the mail server. > If all they're doing is accessing it via smtp/pop then the answer > would be GOBS of users. Sorry for that highly technical answer, but > I honestly don't know how many users a 600mhz PIII will support, but > I know it's hundreds at the very least. I ran mailing lists with > over 100k total subscribers on an old Cyrix MIII based Linux box that > had no problem keeping up with the load. just to add to this, i've even heard of people running *bsd on a 486, and still being able to handle hundreds of users. in particular, i read about a firewall box running openbsd awhile back that received hundreds of hack attempts over a week-long period, and never skipped a beat. the same appears to be true for mail servers, too. - erk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message