[imp] Benchmarking / Machine requirements

[Brad Dameron]

I can bet you are using UW Imap. Try Courier. www.inter7.com/courierimap 

Seems to use less resources and seems quite a bit faster.

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Brad Dameron						bdameron@tscnet.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Crowley [mailto:ccrowley@tulane.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 7:16 AM
> To: imp@lists.horde.org
> Subject: Re: [imp] Benchmarking / Machine requirements
> 
> 
> 
> >particular those in the education fields -- about the size 
> of the webserver
> for IMP
> 
> Our userbase is approx. 20K.
> We run IMP on a 4-CPU 2 Gig Solaris 2.6 Sun 450.
> The mail server is a 6-CPU 8 Gig Solaris 2.6 Sun 3500.
> 
> I can tell you that running IMP on a 1-CPU 128 MB Linux 6.2 
> IBM Netfinity
> was insufficient, even for our pilot program.
> 
> But, I still receive complaints about slowness of response. 
> Which I presume
> is the fault of my misconfiguration of IMP/Apache.  I am also 
> considering a
> switch to Postgresql. This is another suggestion that has 
> been kicked around
> on the list.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
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