From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 6:17:58 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 8C1B337B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:17:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D764843E75 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:17:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daleco@daleco.biz) Received: from DaleCoportable [12.145.236.246] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.13) id A82B3A1A0094; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:16:11 -0600 Message-ID: <021701c27f55$89b6c700$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> From: "DaleCo Help Desk" To: "Matt Delaine" Cc: References: <003301c27f53$e7eedf80$1d01a8c0@mattd> Subject: Re: Max Email Users Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:14:45 -0600 Organization: DaleCo, S.P.---"the solutions people" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 From: "Matt Delaine" To: Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 8:03 AM Subject: Max Email Users > We are running FreeBSD 4.6 on a PIII 600 with 256 Meg RAM as our mail > server. At what point (how many users) will we start running into trouble > (have problems allowing us to send and receive email?) Thanks. > > Matt Delaine > mdelaine@intsolut.com > Anecdotal, and from memory, but IIRC Yahoo was handling 2 million messages/diem on 166's in 1997. I suppose it's possible that disk space would give you trouble before anything else. Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message