[Dovecot] Big sites using Dovecot

Odhiambo WASHINGTON odhiambo.raburu at wananchi.com
Thu Sep 21 21:45:27 EEST 2006


* On 21/09/06 18:14 +0100, Jonathan wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| Are there any big Dovecot sites (say 50,000-100,000) users on this
| list?

Hmm, I doubt but there could be. My biggest deployment has 8800 users.
A few of those could be inactive as I need to do some housekeeping.


| What sort of hardware do you use.

HP DL380, single 3.0GHz CPU, 2GB RAM, SCSI disks.

| What sort of problems do you see?

Other than dovecot dying unexpectedly when compiled with kqueue support
on FreeBSD 6.1, nothing else. I had to disable Kqueue support.
Some tuning is required though. So far I have only bumped up the value
of "login_max_processes_count" to 200. Since then, it's been running 
non-stop for 10 days without any hiccup.


-Wash

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