Re: load average question
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Scott St. John wrote:
> territory and installed 7.2 with Sendmail/QPopper/Apache/OpenWebMail. I am
> paying
> for that now with a huge performance problem. I am seeing Load Averages
> spiking
> above 6 during the day. Hardware is a Dual P3-600 with a gig of ram on a IBM
> Netfinity Raid 5 controller.
Use top(1) to to view processes.
With Red Hat, using the sadc (system activity data collector) with sa and
sar can easily tell you wwhat processes/programs are your resource hogs.
(Your BSD/OS had similar with lastcomm and sa.)
> The owner of the company wants to go back to BSD, but I want to pursue
> Debian.
Debian is great. NetBSD is also great and very similar to BSD/OS (as
another alternative).
> So the question is: is anyone running a similar set up with either
> Sendmail or Posrtfix servicing 2,000+ email accounts with any
> performance issues?
No performance issues using vm-pop3d, exim (MTA), apache and
OpenWebMail with around 10,000 email accounts on similar hardware.
In the past, when using qpopper with 10-15,000 accounts, I improved
performance by using qpopper "server" mode.
Good luck,
Jeremy C. Reed
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