The Message Store scales well, due to its multiprocess, multithreaded nature. The Message Store actually scales more than linearly from one to four processors. This means that a four processor system will handle more load than a set of four single processor systems. The Message Store also scales fairly linearly from four to 12 processors. From 12 to 16 processors, there is increased capacity but not a linear increase. The vertical scalability of a Message Store is more limited with the use of LMTP although the number of users that can be supported on the same size store system increases dramatically.