how many users can Cyrus server support? -- is 5.5 msg/sec sl ow?

[Su Li]

Thanks for the information. I know 9-10 msg/sec is a slow speed. I am
working on it by trying different things.


Su

-----Original Message-----
From: Carsten Hoeger [mailto:choeger at suse.de]
Sent: September 27, 2002 10:38 AM
To: info-cyrus at andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: how many users can Cyrus server support? -- is 5.5 msg/sec
sl ow?


On Fri, Sep 27, Su Li wrote:

> Yes MTA is a problem. When I stop sending emails and let Cyrus IMAP finish
> the mails queued in Sendmail, I got more that 20 messages per second. 
> 
> I have tried to use Postfix. Probebly because I didn't setup Postfix right
> (I use every thing default), I didn't get better performance than using
> Sendmail.

I got 25msg/second on an 0815 desktop Athlon XP1900 with just a single
IDE disk using postfix and cyrus-imapd using LDAP based mail routing.

-- 
With best regards,

Carsten Hoeger

SuSE, The Linux Experts, http://www.suse.com

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