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

[lst_hoe]

At 13:40 18.09.2002 -0400, Su Li wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have been trying my best to get better delivery speed of Cyrus server. Now
>I am stop at 5.5 mesg/sec. I wonder, can any body tell me how many users can
>your cyrus mail server support? --no matter what system or configuration you
>are using. Also if you can tell me how many emails through put you can get
>from your mail server? -- that will be the best. 
>
>Right now, I don't know is 5.5 msg/sec slow or not. 
>
>5.5 * 3600 * 24 = 475200 msg/day 
>
>If each user send 4 mails per hour, 4 * 24 =96 msg/day
>
>475200 / 96 = 4950 users
>
>That means my cyrus mail server can only support 4950 users. That is not
>much for a big organization. 
>
>So can you let me know the max number of users you can support on your
>system or max though put msg/sec? If 5.5 msg/sec if the right number, I just
>stop trying :)
>

Okay, for the records.
We have recently done a short test with Postfix 1.11 -> lmtp -> Cyrus
2.0.16 and get a speed from 8 .. 40 msgs /sec (1k each) on a single IDE
harddisk with 2x 266 PII and 512 MB RAM. If you get a fast SCSI-Array you
can beat this rate by far.

Regards


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Andreas Hödle

Kühn & Weyh Software GmbH

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