hardware sizing for a large mail installation?

[John Madden]

> My setup for about 1200 users (~ 60000 - 70000 mails/day):
> * Some IBM machine
> * 2 GB RAM
> * Dual-Xeon (2.66 GHz)
> * 100 GB Harddisk (SCSI 5 with IBM ServeRAID Controller)

Hmm.  Any thoughts on whether or not twice the cpu's and 4x the RAM would
support 100k users with probably 1 million mails/day?

John





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John Madden
UNIX Systems Engineer
Ivy Tech State College
jmadden at ivytech.edu


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