[imp] Re: Scalable Webmail HOWTO and LDAP doubts

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting chris <albert at dms.umontreal.ca>:

> We have implemented just about everyone of those suggestions but the
> (solaris) box gets unusably slow with over 1200 cuncurrent connections.
> I have 50K users, and I meant 5K concurrent connections.

Okay, 50K is a big site.

> One gets decent performance on a single box with 5K users connected at
> the same time?

No.  But if you have about 5K users, you probably only have about 1K connections
max.  If you have 50K users, then that is a large install.  I would suggest
multiple machines with a load balancer (which is what my university does for
supporting >50K students).

> Chris

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Eric Rostetter
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The University of Texas at Austin

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