At 12:28 PM Thursday 8/5/99, Daemeon Reiydelle wrote:
>There is something very wrong here. Cat'ing two blocks of data should
>take milliseconds. Are you out of memory (does vmstat show paging?)?
I though he mentioned that he ran it 1000 times and thus the numbers reflect
a 1000 invocations...
>When your cat is << .1 seconds or so then rerun your tests. Wait a
>minute, did you run the cat WHILE you were trying to do the deliveries?
>If so, then that is about right as qmail is beating on your hard disk.
>
>Your qmail-inject seem like they are off by about a factor of 10 or less
>(since qmail-send isn't running), but that is just a swag (assuming
>about a hundred other things like a properly configured file system, no
>swapping/page stealing (sufficent memory), and a current-technology SCSI
>non-IDE drive).
>
>Jim Arnott wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm experimenting with qmail's throughput. It approximates what
> > we want to do with it. (send mail from a mail database through
> qmail-inject)
> > I want to see how fast qmail will queue messages.
> >
> > I have a ~433 Mhz Alpha.
> >
> > Experiment:
> >
> > script that runs qmail-inject 1000 times
> > with a 1000 byte body
> > Qmail-send is not running
> >
> > Result:
> > takes 73 seconds (13.7/sec)
> >
> > This seems a little slow to me. The system cpu is 70% idle.
> >
> > Same experiment with "cat >> out.file < 1000byte.in" takes 4 seconds.
> >
> > Is this normal ? Any ideas on how to speed it up.
> >
> > thanks,
> > -jim
>
>--
>Daemeon Reiydelle
>Systems Engineer, Anthropomorphics Inc.
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