On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Robert Mueller wrote: >> I was asked by IT to not permit IDLE since the current server went down >> after 4-500 blackberries ate up all the (limited) capabilities of that >> machine. > > I'd really be surprised if that was a problem these days. We have > machines that have 10000 connections quite fine. Yes they're fairly > loaded servers with fast IO and lots of RAM, but even a pretty basic > server should handle 500 connections no problem. > > Have you actually tested that long lived IDLE connections are a problem? if they are idle they eat up very few resources, if they are checking things frequently, forcing them to reconnect each time will just eat up more resources. David Lang ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
