Performance question...

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Michael J Barber wrote:
> His test system is a Pentium 200 with less than 10 users and just auto generated
> test messages.  The mail boxes were growing to 20-30MB...at least with the
> Courier setup.

Oh. Yeah, that is a scenario where Courier might just be faster than Cyrus.
But if it was way faster, something was indeed wrong with the Cyrus install.

> 
> Any other info would be great and thanks for the note.
> 
> BTW the eventual production system is a dual Xeon 3.0GHz with 4GB ram and 15K
> drives for about 5000 users.

Jeez, I have 35k users in the same class of server, using Cyrus.  Granted,
the usage profile of these users is a low-connection-count one.

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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