DoveCot vs Cyrus-Imapd Performance

Bob Marcan bob at interstudio.homeunix.net
Sun Jan 16 23:08:19 UTC 2005


Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Quoting Kevin Fries <kevin at hcico.com>
> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:01:31
> 
> 
>>You are trying to do 70,000 account on one server?  Are you f-ing nuts!!!!
> 
> 
> Why not?  You have problems with that?
> 
> 
>>That is what clusters are for!  Then, the standard directory structure
>>of Dovecot becomes an even better idea.
> 
> 
> Actually, we built Alpha cluster when numbers went above 100,000.  Mostly
> becasue of redundancy.  As far as CPU power, the big Alpha server was doing just
> fine.  If the big server smoked in the middle of the night, it would take us
> hour or two to get spare running.  With cluster, there would be no downtime at all.
> 
> 
Don't forget to mention the lightning fast advfs file system.
I'm using cyrus at home. FC3 with one user.

Regards, Bob

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