Hi Ray, Sorry I did not answer your question in the previous post. It is not a remoter server it is localhost. and the 100,000 mesages a day, yes!! Currently is about 20,000 and it has been doing that four about 4 years. However, I have built a new application that will bring that number to about 100,000 a day.
Thanks again and take care. 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
