[imp] Slow performance: Suggest Hardware

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von "Keith A. Chayer" <kchayer@bbcnet.edu>:

> 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.

I agree, but you don't need that much more if you just run imp in a small 
intranet. And that what it sounds like.
My server is an old K6-2 200MHz with 80MB and the speed is acceptable. But it's 
really a very small lan here (max. 3 users at a time).

Jan.