Re: Looking for proven version

["Szabo Nandor" <medve@wenetto.hu>]

> > Helo! 
> > My configuration:
> > Openldap-2.1.22, qmail-ldap, POP3, webmail, about 1k users.
> how many concurent user?
> in my site concurent user up to 150 because their mail client are are
> auto checking every 5 min or less, using pop/imap over ssl and smtp
> auth over ssl too.

> > The mail and LDAP system on different box (Debian Woody). 
>
> I'm willing to try another distribution or older version of RH/OL if
> required... 
>
> > LDAP: 128 MB RAM, P III 500 MHz
> > mail: 256 MB RAM, P III 500 MHz 
>
> > There are no performance problems.
> > But the most important: run the LDAP server on different machine. 
>
> I never try this before, i'll give it a try when i think its a good
> solutions.
> May i know the reason? afaik using local ldap will be faster.

I have never used the "one box" solution on production servers. But I read 
it on qmail-ldap mailing list. Some of them has more then 100k users without 
performance problems. 

And tipically this application requires not fast CPU, but fast I/O operation 
(RAM, SCSI disk).