Re: Performance Tuning

[David Emmerich <dpemmerich@driftwood.eiu.edu>]

Tim,

What are you using for AV/AS?  Also, how many accounts will you have?

David Emmerich
Network Specialist II
Eastern Illinois University

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Ross" <tross@calpoly.edu>
To: zimbra-hied-admins@sfu.ca
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 1:23:17 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Performance Tuning



Hi All, 

We have been on a tight deadline for our Zimbra go-live, which is happening over Labor Day weekend, and haven't had the time to do much in the way of performance/load testing. We purchased servers which were about twice the Zimbra recommended specs, so we are not too concerned about hardware. What I would like to know is if any of you out there who have either gone live or done some performance testing have any tips on settings which have helped out your setups. 

Our general setup is 3 mailstore/app servers, 1 logger server, 2 MTA servers, 1 Master LDAP server, and 1 Replica LDAP server. There are dual quad core Intel Xeon X5450 processors on all but the logger server. We have 16 GB of RAM on the mailstore and ldap servers and 8 GB on the MTAs. We have Red Hat Linux 5, 64 bit on all boxes. The logger server is a virtual server with 2 virtual CPUs and 4 GB of RAM. 

We have gone through the Perfomance Tuning Guidelines page on the Zimbra Wiki ( http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Performance_Tuning_Guidelines_for_Large_Deployments ) and plan to implement a number of the recommendations there. 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 

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Tim Ross 
Application Administrator 
Collaboration Support 
Cal Poly State University 
756-6226