Zimbra

su_A_ve · #21 (**permalink**) 05-20-2008, 10:05 AM

1K users on this box... This is a dual xeon x5365 with 8gigs for the grownups

Code:

top - 12:58:32 up 12 days,  6:41,  2 users,  load average: 0.55, 0.36, 0.37
Tasks: 223 total,   1 running, 222 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  7.3% us,  0.5% sy,  0.0% ni, 91.9% id,  0.2% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.1% si
Mem:   8160668k total,  7934412k used,   226256k free,   248196k buffers
Swap: 16777208k total,      176k used, 16777032k free,  3959576k cached

10K users on this one... dual Xeon 5160 with 8 gigs for the kids

Code:

top - 13:02:41 up 12 days,  5:30,  1 user,  load average: 1.86, 1.51, 1.25
Tasks: 218 total,   1 running, 217 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 27.8% us,  2.6% sy,  0.0% ni, 60.6% id,  8.7% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.2% si
Mem:   8165728k total,  8119988k used,    45740k free,    67504k buffers
Swap: 16779884k total,      256k used, 16779628k free,  2638624k cached

(Just noticed some high utilization from mysql - hmm)

GPGeek · #22 (**permalink**) 05-20-2008, 10:22 AM

OK - My RAID move is planned for this weekend. We're moving to new hardware so might as well take advantage of the on-board RAID.

We are also going to add an IronPort appliance for spam filtering. The built in is good but I'm noticing that when we disable spam filtering the performance jumps up again.

Playing with Amazon EC2 is next as a long term solution to scalability and reliability.

bonadio · #23 (**permalink**) 05-23-2008, 08:51 AM

Hello su_A_ve

What type of disks are you using and what type of raid?

Thanks

jlhs5 · #24 (**permalink**) 05-26-2008, 09:13 AM

I have a VM(Ubuntu) on Vmware Windows as Host, 2 processor and 1GB Ram, 40 GB HD, for 110 users, and work very good

rotorboy · #25 (**permalink**) 06-04-2008, 09:03 PM

Alright... well here's where I've ended up starting. I started over as the VM I was testing on had to be dumped and used for another task. So now I'm trying out Zimbra on an Intel Q6600 with 8GB RAM and 2x320GB SATAII Seagate HDD's running a software RAID 1.

I realize that the drives are my bottleneck, but in this case it's what I had handy at the time... based on what I'm reading here I hope to get on towards 500 users and by that time I can switch to iSCSI or whatever.

That machine with 10K users.... what are you running for drives?