For example, if you are a host providing resources to residential consumers, your estimates will differ from the estimates required for corporate use. In general, residential consumers use much fewer resources than corporate consumers, so you would allocate less memory, disk space, and processing power for each residential user. The following sections describe some of the factors that affect Messaging Server performance. You should keep these factors in mind when planning your Messaging Server production environment. All of these provide significant performance enhancements.
Users can negatively impact performance by sending extremely large documents over the network.
The number of connection requests per second is probably the best indicator of how well a Messaging Server will perform in a production environment. Netscape Messaging Servers can service several dozen user requests per second. This space is allocated from a finite amount of memory available to the system. Therefore, the more users connected to the server, the fewer resources there are for new connections. If your processor is not fast, the server will not be able to connect incoming processes efficiently.