25 Jan
2005
25 Jan
'05
12:51 p.m.
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:43:06 PST, "J.D. Falk" said:
(I'm also surprised you need 300 servers to handle such a small load -- what is that, ~3333 messages per server per day?)
Some mail software scales better than others. ;) And yes, we *DID* have one large software vendor admit that at the time, they'd need a 300-system cluster to handle all our 70K users. We ended up with a single Sun system instead. Not sure if said vendor scales any better now - we have like 6 or 7 machines to handle the 2,000 or so users we have on their package (but that's including test and backup boxes...)