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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:42:10 +0200
From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 8 cores
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> if that doesn't compel you, running upas imap server for ~40 users
> with 1.3gb of inboxes might.  since upas has the bad manners to load
> the entire mailbox, we're using about 90% of the 3.5gb bios will spare
> us in 32bit mode.  i also watched it at 100% cpu for a solid hour
> yesterday.

There is supposedly an amd64 port somewhere which should let you use
more ram, but you already know that. Of course we all also know how
releasing code that people might find useful and even improve is a
crazy idea...

> it's embarassing that mail is such a hog.  this is our scalability plan:
>
>        /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/src/nupas/

Agreed

uriel