Is there a limit to number of mailboxes in cyrus

Sergio Devojno Bruder bruder at haxent.com.br
Fri Sep 9 16:19:01 EDT 2005


Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>>>>FWIW, I've experimented with 750k mailboxes on a single system with 8GB 
>>>>RAM and we
>>>>plan to put that number in production in a couple of months here.
>>>
>>>Ouch, 750k?  How many concurrent accesses?
>>
>>We currently have 1.6M, 1.2M and 940k mailboxes in 3 boxes with fiber to 
>>a single emc storage, all boxes dual Xeon 3.4Ghz EMT64T with 4G.
> 
> I'd better rephrase the question... how many concurrent *USERS* are
> accessing the system over imap? pop? lmtp?

Our imap usage pattern is webmail only, users only 'see' pop3, so our 
concurrent use of imap is a lot lower than normal email clients.

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Sergio Devojno Bruder



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