[imp] FW: Performance tuning + RAM requirements

[David Wilson]

Hi Didi,


So my RAM at 128K and 50Megs of the swap file used is OK ? All I need is
http://apc.communityconnect.com and all the problems will be fixed ? ;-)


Regards
David Wilson
Technical Support Centre
The S.A Internet
0860 100 869

http://www.sai.co.za



-----Original Message-----
From: Didi Rieder [mailto:adrieder@sbox.tugraz.at]
Sent: 06 May 2001 04:44
To: imp@lists.horde.org
Subject: Re: [imp] FW: Performance tuning + RAM requirements


Quoting David Wilson <davew@sai.co.za>:

> Hi all, howzit going ?
>
> I'm running IMP at the end of a 128K line on a P3 750 with 128Megs of RAM.
> I have on average 200 simultaneous connections accessing their webmail, at
> times I have noticed that the responsiveness of IMP slows down badly.
> I have tried loading a caching DNS with Bind which definitely seems to
have
> improved some items speed, however I still have a major problem with
things
> just taking to long for my users.
> Is there any options that I can use for Apache, MySQL, Sendmail or IMAP
> that
> will increase the responsivness of IMP ? All I have is basically the
> default
> install config for Apache etc. So maybe there is some "tweaking" I can do
> of
> the config files ?
> It's also noticed that CPU usage sits pretty high most of the time, 30-60%
> Idle. One thing that concerned me is that the system was using 50Megs of
> it's swap drive, so I think that adding more RAM should help ?
>
> Anyways any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks. ;-)
>

If you are using IMP-2.2.x, then you can try the APC, it increases the speed
of
IMP at least 2-3 fold.

http://apc.communityconnect.com

(Unfortunately there are problems with APC and IMP-2.3.7-cvs)

Didi

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