[Dovecot] Dovecot for production environment

[James Moser]

That was 50,221 users on one dual processor (PIII 3.02Ghz Xeon) dell 
2650 with 4gigs of ram. I'm not sure about concurrent users, but we have 
as many as 10 to 15 authenticated connections per second. 

mail01# tail -f /var/log/maillog |grep Login
Apr  8 22:07:57 mail01 pop3-login: Login: tinamc [66.74.103.232]
Apr  8 22:07:57 mail01 pop3-login: Login: rsqm [66.130.185.91]
Apr  8 22:07:57 mail01 pop3-login: Login: jbenalluch [69.140.148.204]
Apr  8 22:07:57 mail01 pop3-login: Login: mrjensen [24.0.200.132]
Apr  8 22:07:57 mail01 pop3-login: Login: papabear3 [67.38.17.200]
Apr  8 22:07:57 mail01 pop3-login: Login: guetta [68.161.98.196]
Apr  8 22:07:57 mail01 pop3-login: Login: 10807.postma [24.20.89.23]
Apr  8 22:07:58 mail01 pop3-login: Login: ddove [12.202.143.197]
Apr  8 22:07:58 mail01 pop3-login: Login: 12061.sarah [66.214.64.87]
Apr  8 22:07:58 mail01 pop3-login: Login: lmcooper [148.64.10.179]
Apr  8 22:07:58 mail01 pop3-login: Login: k2kast [68.232.127.204]
Apr  8 22:07:58 mail01 pop3-login: Login: 4835.uspromo [68.224.241.105]
Apr  8 22:07:58 mail01 pop3-login: Login: hnconner [209.17.161.60]
Apr  8 22:07:58 mail01 pop3-login: Login: kbechtel [216.153.176.93]
Apr  8 22:07:58 mail01 pop3-login: Login: jolthoff [12.219.166.42]
Apr  8 22:07:58 mail01 pop3-login: Login: beta [64.203.14.99]
Apr  8 22:07:58 mail01 pop3-login: Login: 14185.joe [141.158.63.80]
Apr  8 22:07:58 mail01 pop3-login: Login: threebearsjunc [67.38.17.200]
Apr  8 22:07:58 mail01 pop3-login: Login: valcarcel [24.184.87.216]
Apr  8 22:07:58 mail01 pop3-login: Login: eintec [24.184.87.216]
Apr  8 22:07:59 mail01 pop3-login: Login: wardbaxter [24.20.97.47]
Apr  8 22:07:59 mail01 imap-login: Login: orangeweb [66.152.97.131]
Apr  8 22:07:59 mail01 pop3-login: Login: wlmeyer [69.165.47.173]
Apr  8 22:07:59 mail01 pop3-login: Login: 654.amanda [4.242.102.192]
Apr  8 22:07:59 mail01 pop3-login: Login: rca_email [66.38.89.33]
Apr  8 22:07:59 mail01 pop3-login: Login: christy2 [66.75.155.254]
Apr  8 22:08:00 mail01 pop3-login: Login: drolthoff [12.219.166.42]
Apr  8 22:08:00 mail01 pop3-login: Login: grant2720 [68.56.3.132]
Apr  8 22:08:00 mail01 pop3-login: Login: jbenalluch [69.140.148.204]
Apr  8 22:08:00 mail01 pop3-login: Login: joyce465321 [66.82.195.158]

This mail server hosted just over 12,000 virtual domains.... handles 
thoasands of messages per hour.  postfix is running on the same 
system.   Its running beautifully too...  I've converted over three more 
systems with almost identical environments... 



seth vidal wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 14:57 -0700, James Moser wrote:
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>>I'll tell ya anything you wanna know...  I'm using FreeBSD 4.9, here is 
>>my how I currently configuered it (didn't use the ports)..
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>I'm actually curious about:
>1. how many systems?
>2. how many concurrent users?
>3. what type of hw is this on?
>4. what type of mail volume do you have to deal with?
>
>Thanks for all the info - the central powers at duke that be just went
>through a fairly massive mail system migration and I'm just curious
>about other systems of similar scale 50K users is similar scale.
>
>Thanks
>-sv
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>

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James L Moser                 james at powweb.com
PowWeb Hosting                http://www.powweb.com

/(bb|[^b]{2})/,  that is the Question.

mysql>SELECT * FROM user WHERE clue > 0;
Empty set (0.03 sec) 

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