Re: [exim] setup Exim to improve SMTP performance

2006-03-29 Thread Olivier Bonvalet
Jakob Hirsch a écrit : Quoting Olivier Bonvalet: I haven't got enough entropy on my servers, and /dev/random is blocking. Now, I'll search to a true solution : Do you really need TLS for sending out your newsletter? If not: hosts_avoid_tls is expanded, so you could use it for

Re: [exim] setup Exim to improve SMTP performance

2006-03-29 Thread Jeff Garzik
Olivier Bonvalet wrote: Other possible ways are: - a hardware RNG, either in the chipset (supported by the kernel) or from a cheap microphone (kernel patch available) - Entropy Gathering Daemon (EGD) or similar user space tools, must be supported by your software (patched openssl?) No, in my

Re: [exim] setup Exim to improve SMTP performance

2006-03-28 Thread Olivier Bonvalet
So I try to : - put /var/spool/exim4 on a different partition, with noatime option - put /var/spool/exim4/db in memory (/dev/shm) - set message_logs = false - set split_spool_directory = true It didn't change anything, exim send about 280 / 300 emails per minute. But, I think I found where is

Re: [exim] setup Exim to improve SMTP performance

2006-03-28 Thread Jakob Hirsch
Quoting Olivier Bonvalet: I haven't got enough entropy on my servers, and /dev/random is blocking. Now, I'll search to a true solution : Do you really need TLS for sending out your newsletter? If not: hosts_avoid_tls is expanded, so you could use it for disabling TLS when sending out the

Re: [exim] setup Exim to improve SMTP performance

2006-03-23 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Phil Pennock wrote: Local DNS cache /var/log being a different filesystem from /var/spool/exim/ (not just for the hints). Set split_spool_directory. no_message_logs Tony. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dotat.at/ ${sg{\N${sg{\

Re: [exim] setup Exim to improve SMTP performance

2006-03-23 Thread Olivier Bonvalet
Tony Finch a écrit : On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Phil Pennock wrote: Local DNS cache /var/log being a different filesystem from /var/spool/exim/ (not just for the hints). Set split_spool_directory. no_message_logs Yes I read it too, and add it in the config file. But I can't test before

Re: [exim] setup Exim to improve SMTP performance

2006-03-23 Thread Olivier Bonvalet
Tony Finch a écrit : On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Olivier Bonvalet wrote: I was thinking it was needed only for ext2/ext3. For XFS and JFS too ? And what about ReiserFS ? It also changes the way Exim scans the spool in a queue run, which can help performance even on filesystems that handle

[exim] setup Exim to improve SMTP performance

2006-03-21 Thread Olivier Bonvalet
Hello, sorry for this frequent question, but I don't really found what I'm searching. So, we actually have 6 small servers (sempron 2.2Ghz, 512Mo RAM, 1 IDE HD) to send a newsletter once a week to about 400'000 members. We setup Exim 4.5 (Debian Sarge) on each of them, but can't send more

Re: [exim] setup Exim to improve SMTP performance

2006-03-21 Thread Stephen Gran
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 05:22:57PM +0100, Olivier Bonvalet said: Hello, sorry for this frequent question, but I don't really found what I'm searching. So, we actually have 6 small servers (sempron 2.2Ghz, 512Mo RAM, 1 IDE HD) to send a newsletter once a week to about 400'000 members. We

Re: [exim] setup Exim to improve SMTP performance

2006-03-21 Thread Olivier Bonvalet
Stephen Gran a écrit : You'll need to profile to figure out where yourbottleneck is, unfortunately. It occurs to me that if 6 servers send 5 emails/second, and the email is 5k, that's 150k/s, which is roughly the speed of a T1. If I have guessed right, and you have a T1, then there's not much

Re: [exim] setup Exim to improve SMTP performance

2006-03-21 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Olivier Bonvalet, Stephen Gran a ?crit : You'll need to profile to figure out where yourbottleneck is, unfortunately. It occurs to me that if 6 servers send 5 emails/second, and the email is 5k, that's 150k/s, which is roughly the speed of a T1. If I have guessed right, and you

Re: [exim] setup Exim to improve SMTP performance

2006-03-21 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 21/03/06, Olivier Bonvalet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Gran a écrit : You'll need to profile to figure out where yourbottleneck is, unfortunately. It occurs to me that if 6 servers send 5 emails/second, and the email is 5k, that's 150k/s, which is roughly the speed of a T1. If I

Re: [exim] setup Exim to improve SMTP performance

2006-03-21 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2006-03-21 at 17:22 +0100, Olivier Bonvalet wrote: Have I to set anything else to improve perf ? Local DNS cache, or LDAP slave if using LDAP for lookups. If doing many file lookups per recipient, consider building the data into CDB files for faster lookups. /var/log being a different

Re: [exim] setup Exim to improve SMTP performance

2006-03-21 Thread Olivier Bonvalet
Phil Pennock a écrit : On 2006-03-21 at 17:22 +0100, Olivier Bonvalet wrote: Have I to set anything else to improve perf ? Local DNS cache, or LDAP slave if using LDAP for lookups. Ok. I already have a local DNS cache, and don't use LDAP. If doing many file lookups per