On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:38:49AM -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 14:12 +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > > On 11/16/2010 12:30 PM, Dave McMurtrie wrote: > > > Good morning, > > > This may be slightly off-topic, so apologies in advance. Is there > > > anyone out there who allows unlimited quota for their users or provides > > > extremely large quotas when asked for? > > > If so, can you describe any problems you've had with this? > > We have users with > 5 GB. > > Our largest quota's a 4GB; without any issues. Our biggest currently is about 30GB I think. > I think the issue you will encounter first is clients will start to fall > down when folders exceed a 'reasonable' number of messages. Common IMAP > clients I've seen start to exhibit severe performance issues beyond a > few hundred thousand messages. On a 32 bit architecture: we had one folder with over a million messages which was causing processes to run out of virtual memory trying to map the cache file in. This wouldn't be a problem with a 64 bit userland. > > We haven't seen any problems with them. The only general problem we > > face is taking backups of a full store. It just takes very long to > > complete full backups. (Of course that isn't tied to large or no quota.) Nup - full backup would be a problem. We don't do them any more: everything is context aware backups. Bron. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
