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[Dale Ghent <address@concealed>]

On Mar 21, 2007, at 1:43 AM, Adam Bernstein wrote:

> > > 230,000 subscriptions
> > > 130,000 unique email addresses
> > > 2300 lists
> > >
> > > So based on what I know about Sympa's database needs that is  
> > > close to
> > > 400,000 records.  I have setup Sympa to use MySQL, but now I am
>
> That's basically like our installation (more like 1000 lists, but  
> still 450K subscriptions), and we're running it on an aging P4  
> 1.8GHz with 1GB RAM with MySQL on FreeBSD, and are seeing only  
> minor limitations from the processor.  We're about to upgrade the  
> machine, but not primarily for CPU reasons.  You should have no  
> problem.

250k subscribers, 2200 lists here. We run Sympa on a Sun V20z (dual  
1.8G Opterons) with 2GB of RAM. Works quite fine.

System statistics:

http://stats.umbc.edu/syscore/cacti/graph_view.php? 
action=tree&tree_id=4&leaf_id=40

Note the CPU graphs.

/dale
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Dale Ghent
UNIX Systems Specialist
UMBC - Office of Information Technology
ECS 201 - x51705