Sounds great! Thanks. I will start making those changes. I figured it would be the best but the company who built the software did it this way for some reason that I do not know so figured I would ask. The application is quite database intensive so I figure they were trying to reduce the load. The database is in a different server. I will probaly create a database for this and see what happens.
Thanks! Alvaro Zuniga On Wednesday 17 September 2003 12:49 am, -ray wrote: > I would say absolutely! You are sending 100,000 messages a day for this? > Is it sending to a remote mail server? If you're building and tearing > down a TCP connection for each message, that's a lot of overhead. Not to > mention the MTA and file i/o overhead. And if you're spawning an external > process to send the mail? If it was just a few messages, no biggie. But > 100k is over 1 message per second, probably more during peak times. I'd > say that is fairly substantial. > > If you're having load problems, turning off those messages is the first > thing i'd do to tune the app. But also check the usual suspects when > performance tuning (memory, I/O, CPU -- in that order). Can you turn off > the messages temporarily to see if load decreases or performance > increases? > > ray
