Re: load average question
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Use top(1) to to view processes.
Have been doing that constantly, my eyes hurt :) Sendmail the top dog
with the occasional hit from Openwebmail which shows as perl. Popper will
do a quick peak and then usually drop off.
> No performance issues using vm-pop3d, exim (MTA), apache and
> OpenWebMail with around 10,000 email accounts on similar hardware.
10,000 email accounts on a similar machine? Man, I must be doing
something wrong! I assume you are running Debian? Sounds more and more
to me like a Red Hat and sendmail problem in my case if I can't handle
2,300 mail accounts.
> In the past, when using qpopper with 10-15,000 accounts, I improved
> performance by using qpopper "server" mode.
I tried that and the qpopper stopped responding after about 30 minutes and
the Outlook users would get the xinetd error.
Thank you to everyone who responded, it is obvious that I need to get a
Debian box up and see how it performs under this load, I am sure it will
do much better.
-Scott
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