Thanks David. Your hardware/os specs sound pretty typical. You mention two interesting things though - Tokens and DNS servers.
- How do tokens affect performance of the CFX tag? Is it better to loop over the CFX tag and pass single tokens in or use the QTOKEN functionality? Or is it better to not use tokens at all (which implies looping over the CFX tag for each unique email)? Are you running the process the creates the emails with the CFX tag on the same server that is sending with the POST module? - You have 10 DNS servers configured! I only have two (maintained by my ISP), but I have my MX cache set to 10,000. Is this a significant bottleneck? - Was your rate of 300K/hour observed in the real-world (vs. a test setup)? John ----- Original Message ----- From: "DGo 800-826-7763 x117" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "inFusion Support List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 9:15 AM Subject: RE: [iMS] RAMDisk results We did not use ram disk software. Howie never brought it up, so we did not experiment with it. Here are the six factors determining performance of the POST module: 1. Size of the email - (assume 10k html for calculations.) 2. Tokens - Passing variables into the email. 3. MX Servers on the other end. 4. Size of the Queue 5. Server Hardware and Software Setup 6. Bandwidth I would ask Howie to put these in order of importance and anyone on the list to provide input. Server hardware was dual processor, 2 Gig. RAM, Adaptec wide, Seagate 10k rpm Cheetah 18 gig drive. Server software was Win2k Advance Server (don't know if this made a difference), with one 2 gig. Partition for OS , 16 for database, Ims Out and Ims logs folders. No RAID setup. Applications were CF Ent. 5, MSSQL 7, IMS POST. (Howie said it was better to run the SQL on the same machine. Don't know why?) Lan was 100 meg. Switch to Cisco 4500 and WAN was DS-3 a few hops from Uunet's backbone. We had two Linux DNS servers on the same subnet and set 8 more in IMS Config. on tier 1 backbone. More later.. Regards to all, DGo ==^======================================================= This list server is Powered by iMS "The Swiss Army Knife of Mail Servers" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided as a free service. Although we will try to address issues in a timely manner, support via this list is not guaranteed. If you require expedited support then a support contract is required. Support may be purchased from http://www.coolfusion.com/commerce. Details regarding support options may be reviewed at: http://www.coolfusion.com/SupportOptions.cfm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave this list please complete the form at http://www.coolfusion.com/Support/ Need an iMS Developer license? Sign up for a free license here: http://www.coolfusion.com/Developers/ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/infusion-email%40eoscape.com/ Note: You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==^=======================================================
