From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 9:29:17 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 B3BE437B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:29:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from zoon.lafn.org (zoon.lafn.org [206.117.18.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5216543E75 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:29:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from lafn.org (host-66-81-25-115.rev.o1.com [66.81.25.115]) by zoon.lafn.org (8.12.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g9THT8cr021853; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:29:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:29:07 -0800 Subject: Re: Max Email Users Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v546) Cc: To: "Matt Delaine" From: Doug Hardie In-Reply-To: <003301c27f53$e7eedf80$1d01a8c0@mattd> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.546) 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 Tuesday, Oct 29, 2002, at 06:03 US/Pacific, 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. I run an ISP and was using a PIII 200 MHz machine with 512 Meg Ram and supporting around 4000 active email accounts. It also handled outgoing mail, our admin functions, name service, YP master and some other low usage functions. I recently upgraded to a newer machine because it was available an had more disk space. With the old machine, I only say idle times under 90% when a user had their POP3 client set to not delete mail from the server and their mailbox grew to 100 MB or so. Then the POP3 server has to do a lot of I/O to get to the new messages. The issue is not so much the disk space as the time it takes to wade through all the old stuff. I try to convince users to correct their configurations. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message