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Originally Posted by p24t  Hah, that's not overkill! I have 75 users on a 8-way xeon 2.83g box with 16g of RAM.
I thought it was a bit much, but I don't have to worry for a long, long time. |
I think your setup is ideal - I just can't afford to jump in that big just yet.
I'm running 2 Opterions and 8GB of ram for just under 100 users all using the advanced web client.
This system is mission critical and talking our group of clients from their comfortable Outlook took a lot of persuading so the responsiveness of the system needed to be rock solid.
Best way to do that for a web app is usually lots of CPU, Ram and Fast Drives.
The web client eats up quite a bit of Ram and bumping the ram from 2GB to 8GB we saw a noticeable improvement. Could have went with 4GB but why not 8GB (memory is cheap). Also our other biggest performance boost was moving to 10k drives and dropping the hardware RAID.
A simpler system, not fully fault tolerant but made it more responsive. To be honest I have gotten very good at installing Zimbra and configuring it to our settings so if we did have a drive fail we could be up and running in a few hours or less.
Throw as much power at the system as you can afford and you'll sleep better at night.
-JB