[imp] Ooomph for IMP

Kevin Myers km@gcom.co.th
Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:56:33 +0700


On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:50:22 -0400, JAReD wrote:

>I've been running an IMP server (version 2.x) on a p266 with 256 MB 
>ram (linux 2.4.x kernel, php 4.x, etc.) connected to the IMAP server 
>via a 100 Mbit switch.  I have about 1300 users and get about 1000 
>log-ins a day. It's also entirely over ssl.
>
>The speed seems decent to me (for a web based email client) from the 
>local network and I've never got any complaints.  The IMP server 
>definitely works during heavy use times.  I regularly see system load 
>over.5 and often over 1.0.
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>-jared

Yes, interesting, thanks. Is this a dedicated machine just for IMP, or does
it serve other pages etc? Is it generally a good thing to split the IMAP/IMP
functions across machines, or do people use one m/c to do both?
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