Two ethernet one IP load balancing ?

Nikos Vassiliadis nvass at teledomenet.gr
Thu Mar 8 13:09:24 UTC 2007


On Thursday 08 March 2007 14:32, Frank Bonnet wrote:
> Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Why do you think that the network is the bottleneck
> > in your setup? Do you have a system that can process
> > - in some way - 1Gb of email per second?
> 
> That is not ONLY smtp traffic we extensively use IMAP
> and there are currently 400/500 IMAP processes on the
> machine , this protocol is a pretty bandwidth cruncher
> 
> the machine support also POP3 + WEBMAIL traffic so ...
> the more it will have bandwidth, better will be the
> email service given to my users.

You say that your servers (whatever that is IMAP, SMTP,
POP3, web) running on an one and only computer are pushing
down the wire over 1Gbps?

What's your current bandwidth utilization?


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