Re: Upgrade a mail server

["Jason Lim" <maillist@jasonlim.com>]

>
> /etc/passwd should scale to 1300 users, using nscd should solve any
problems
> there.  But chances are that changing how you look up user names won't
make
> any noticable difference in performance.
>
> The best way of killing performance on a POP server is using
/var/spool/mail.
> Use Maildir storage and you'll get huge performance gains.
>
> I am guessing that you use /var/spool/mail as I can't imagine any other
way
> of getting performance problems with only 1300 users.

Or he is running this on a 486 ;-)