[imp] Slow performance: Suggest Hardware

[Keith A. Chayer]

Quoting Warwick Chapman <budgee@glenwoodhighschool.co.za>:

> I have IMP running on a P75/32MB with Debian r0. IMP is very 
> slow? It is quicker for me to hit Yahoo mail across the NET than to 
> hit IMP on the LAN.

That's a pretty slow machine for all of the server-side PHP processing an
application like IMP must do.  We didn't acheive marginally acceptible
performance until we upgraded to a 300mhz/64MB, though things really smoothed
out with our current PIII 650/256MB machines: one for webserver, and one for
mailserver.

A machine like you've got is great for a webserver with a moderate amount of
traffic, but you need something more if you want to run IMP.

..Keith

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Keith A. Chayer                                         Baptist Bible College
Network Technician                                         Springfield, MO
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