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 the problem : TLS http://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4KnownBugsInSarge

I haven't got enough entropy on my servers, and "/dev/random" is "blocking".
I try to replace /dev/random by /dev/urandom, and it seems to be really really
faster (but I haven't got any stats, since I found this too late).

Now, I'll search to a "true" solution :
- I want to keep "/dev/random" for security purpose
- really don't want to use a compiled version

I prefer to not use "backports", but if I don't found any other solutions, I'll do.

Thanks all !
Olivier


Olivier Bonvalet a écrit :
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 recipient, consider building the data
into CDB files for faster lookups.
mmm I forgot to say : recipients are not local at all, all emails are for remote smtp servers.


/var/log being a different filesystem from /var/spool/exim/ (not just
for the hints).
mm Ok. I'll try this, and will set "noatime" option for /var/spool/exim too.

Set split_spool_directory.
I was thinking it was needed only for ext2/ext3. For XFS and JFS too ? And what about ReiserFS ?


Look carefully at what happens with your exim Routers; are you
spam-scanning the outgoing mail once, at submission, or once per
recipient?  If all mail sent to your mailing-list software is scanned
for spam and malware, then you probably can skip the scanning on the
resubmitted emails.  Many "template" configurations route mail on a
per-recipient basis to spam-scanning first, because they're not designed
to deal with that degree of recipient fan-out.
There is not any spam filter or anti virus on this boxes. They are dedicated for the mailing list :
just Exim which send emails to remote SMTP servers.

For the routers, the config is the "default".


Thanks

Olivier



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