Is there a limit to number of mailboxes in cyrus

[Thomas Vogt]

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Am 08.09.2005 um 07:32 schrieb Ramprasad A Padmanabhan:

> On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 19:14, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> --On 6. September 2005 18:14:27 +0530 Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
>> <ramprasad at netcore.co.in> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>   I have a cyrus server running linux RHEL3 with around 4000  
>>> mailboxes.
>>>
>>
>> we have about 30,000 users using the same OS, using the RPMs from
>> <http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/cyrus-imapd/>.
>>
>
> 30000 !!
> Is this on a single machine. Can you give some details about the
> hardware you use ?

We stored ~50'000 boxes on a single FreeBSD 4.x machine for a couple  
of years. It was a dual Pentium 3, Tyan server motherboard, Intel  
server network cards with 2gb of ram, adaptec 2100 raid controller  
and fast scsi disks. The system and mailbox disks where separated.

Regrads,
Thomas

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