IMAP hibernate and scalability in general

Christian Balzer chibi at gol.com
Thu Apr 6 14:12:17 EEST 2017


On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 13:10:03 +0300 Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On 6 Apr 2017, at 9.56, Christian Balzer <chibi at gol.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> For no particular reason besides wanting to start conservatively, we've got
> >> client_limit set to 50 on the hibernate procs (with 1100 total hibernated
> >> connections on the box I'm looking at). At only a little over a meg each,
> >> I'm fine with those extra processes.
> >>   
> > Yeah, but 50 would be a tad too conservative for our purposes here.
> > I'll keep an eye on it and see how it goes, first checkpoint would be at
> > 1k hibernated sessions. ^_^  
> 
> imap-hibernate processes are similar to imap-login processes in that they should be able to handle thousands or even tens of thousands of connections per process.
> 
I assume the config processes are in the same category, they are happy
with 16k clients and using 169MB each, without any issues. ^.^

Christian
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