Re: load average question
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:20, Torsten Krueger wrote:
> Hmm - watch out for the load qpopper produces. Since the sendmail/qpopper
> combination uses mbox a users mailbox is copied every time the mbox is
> accessed. If you have large mailboxes (e.g. no quota an users leave mail
> on server) this can produce a significant load.
You are correct, any pop server which uses mbox stores will cause very high
system load, and qpopper is worse than some other pop servers.
I was just looking at the concept rather than the details when I wrote my
previous quick email.
You and Craig are right about the benefits of Maildir.
> I would see no problems with that. If you can make sure that the popper
> produces the load I'd suggest moving to Maildir for storage of the users
> mailboxes and perhaps Postfix with Courier Pop3d.
I agree totally.
> > Apart from webmail that should be a trivial load. Webmail systems seem
> > to take up lots of resources in my experience, is it an option to have a
> > separate machine for webmail?
> >
> > http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark
>
> Try this one and look what type of the system is the reason for the
> problems.
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