Re: [cobalt-users] amount of users

[Kris Dahl <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 2/12/00 5:16 AM, Fathi Said at fathi@xxxxxx wrote:

> Jeff,
> 
>> 3,000 email addresses, at 5,000,000 bytes each (5 megabytes) adds up to
>> 15,000,000,000, or 15 gigabytes of disk storage.  Plus the space you need
>> for temp files, depending on how many people are accessing email at the
>> same time.
> 
> If this is of any help....
> 
> 15gb would only be the case if ALL users user their webspace allowance 100%.
> Our inhouse stats here show (we have stats for a few thousand domains and
> users) that the average webspace needed per POP box (=per user) with a 20mb
> allowance is usually under 2mb......

However, you need to take into account swap space.  In order for a user to
receive a 2mb file, they tend to need a quota of about 4mb.

-k