This section provides example resource distributions and recommended sizing information for the following two Instant Messaging deployment types:
For a small Instant Messaging deployment with the server and multiplexor on a single server having 10,000 users with the following profile:
30 percent connected/active
20 percent connected/inactive
50 percent not connected
The hardware requirements are: one or two CPUs with 300-500 MB RAM each.
For a large Instant Messaging deployment having 1,000,000 users with the following profile:
5 percent connected/active
20 percent connected/inactive
75 percent not connected
The server memory requirements are 4 GB RAM on two CPUs. The multiplexor requirement is 4 GB RAM on 16 CPUs.