[Dovecot] dovecot dimensioning

[mancyborg at gmail.com]

Hi Javier, yes i see.
Storage for now is just a 3tb sata2 hdd, so i guess that write performance is around 100 MB/s

What do you think about that ?

Thanks and regards,
Mike


On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 19:55:35 +0100
Javier de Miguel Rodriguez <javierdemiguel-ext at us.es> wrote:

> 
> IMHO, fast storage is the main requirement for dovecot.
> 
> 
> 
> El 01/11/2012, a las 16:20, "mancyborg at gmail.com" <mancyborg at gmail.com> escribió:
> 
> > Hi All, first post here, nice to meet you :)
> > 
> > I've been using dovecot + postfix + clamav + spamassassin for years but always with few users.
> > 
> > Now i must build a server for 1500 users,
> > they will use various email software (thunderbird, outlook, ..)
> > the webmail (i'm not sure if squirrelmail or roundcube)
> > and blackberry devices (with the BIS service).
> > 
> > There will be around 1000 domains (virtual_domains) and postfix will read its users and domains from mysql.
> > 
> > Let's say that they will send and receive around 5000 emails per hour (10K in total per hour).
> > 
> > I was thinking to use karspersky server instead of clamav.
> > 
> > I already have the hardware, it is a server with 4 physical cpu (Intel Xeon E5504 @ 2.00GHz) and 24 gb of ram,
> > do you think it is enough ?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks for supporting,
> > regards and have a nice day,
> > Mike