From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 7: 5:31 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 803CA37B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 07:05:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.24cl.com (174.113.sn.ct.dsl.thebiz.net [216.238.113.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7FF243E75 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 07:05:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from myraq@mgm51.com) Received: from ntmm (unknown [63.119.50.193]) by home.24cl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F2DF2B27E; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:05:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <200210291005200585.03E470A2@home.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: <003301c27f53$e7eedf80$1d01a8c0@mattd> References: <003301c27f53$e7eedf80$1d01a8c0@mattd> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (1) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:05:20 -0500 Reply-To: myraq@mgm51.com From: "MikeM" To: "Matt Delaine" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Max Email Users Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" 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 10/29/02 at 8:03 AM Matt Delaine wrote: |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. ============= Mail servers tend to be more disk-intensive than CPU intensive. As such, your i/o throughput capability (or lack thereof) may be the bottleneck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message