Peter, I've got two sets of results, one from James before I applied your patch, the other after it all other factors remian the same, thats the only comparison I'm making.
in previous tests I consistently ran 10,000 1k mails through the spooler at slightly over 14 mails per second. (using a single connection per 100 mails) d. > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter M. Goldstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 13 October 2002 19:37 > To: 'James Developers List' > Subject: RE: Peters patch doesn't actually work... > > > > Danny, > > > sorry, thats the wrong way round its assmebly.xml that needs twiddled. > > > > However, applying the same SMTP test, this time 2000 1k mails from 20 > > threads, Peter's changes resulted in more refused connections, 1st > after > > only 16 connections have been attempted and with no more at all after > 361 > > mails have been delivered. > > > > I haven't looked at the code really, but my empirical view is that > SMTP > > suffers from these changes. > > I've been running these tests all night with a slightly tweaked version > of the patch I submitted (there was an erroneous notify() call in that > patch). It runs fine under load, although there do seem to be some > problems with the spooler if its put under consistent load. It's not > clear what the relationship is to the handler changes. We've never > driven the spooler under serious load, so we have no idea what load it > can take. I'm looking into this. > > Might I suggest that you check your configuration. My first guess would > be that you didn't correctly bump up the maximum number of threads in > your server's thread pool. The specified number of 40 would be too low > for your test, since 20 connections would consume 40 threads alone, not > to mention that all the other blocks use at least one thread apiece. > > --Peter > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
