Re: [exim] exim capabilities fo 10-30 K email accounts

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:05:51PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Depending on how many limits you put on your users it's possible to
> handle upwards of 15,000 users on a measly little PII/300Mhz with 512MB
> of RAM and a decently fast disk subsystem. The particular system I have
> in mind also serves all the personal web pages for those users (maybe
> 25% of users have homepages, some quite busy but most never get hit).

Could you please tell how many block reads/writes per second you get at
peak load time? (sar/iostat/whatever)

Because statements like yours make me wonder whether it is my hardware
that underperforms, or it is my users that are so special. :-)

Marcin
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