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
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>>You are trying to do 70,000 account on one server? Are you f-ing nuts!!!!
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> Why not? You have problems with that?
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>>That is what clusters are for! Then, the standard directory structure
>>of Dovecot becomes an even better idea.
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> 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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