Re: [cobalt-users] high load in RAQ3i

["kajan" <kajan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > Pl. note high load average & in.qpopper cpu utilisation.
> > > I have 60 sites & around 1000 e-mail accounts & 3 web site hosted in
the
> > > server.
>
> I'm wondering if this has become a problem for someone yet... most email
> programs check mail about every 10 minutes, automatically, so long as the
> user is connected to the 'net. Now if you have 1000 users, and these usrs
> are all on high speed access, that's 100 visits to the qpopper per minute,
> which breaks down to 1.6 visits to the qpopper per second, on average. Now
> that doesn't even count the technically savvy who figure, well, I'm on
high
> speed, I might as well check email every 5 minutes.... etc.
>
> When does automated email retrieval like this become a load problem?
>
> Right now I have 200 to 250 email users, and many of those are dialup, so
> this has not become a problem for me, yet. However, I figure its just a
> matter of time before I have more and more high speed email users.
>
Thanks Kelvin for comments. one of my user is checking e-mail for every min.
and another one for every two min. I have reguested them to change their
config. & monitoring the status.

Regards

Kajan
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