Should someone setup some kind of standard benchmarking? I'm interested, as
I'm sure that 1/2 the list is now on how well our systems perform. I think
that this should be easily duplicated on any mail system (Unix at least) so
we can prove to the masses how scaleable qmail is.
BTW I am glad I don't have 10 Million emails to go out everyday. I like my
cushy Sysadmin Job =)
-----Original Message-----
From: David Dyer-Bennet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 5:14 PM
To: Qmail
Subject: RE: Performance
Tim Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 6 August 1999 at 16:36:48 -0400
> Makes me amazed at the machines that people have to run mail anymore.
> My company mail server is a p75, 32M, 2G IDE
> I have only 30 users but alot of throughput, never had any problems with
> queuing or ever had to reboot for any reason other than a kernel update.
> Maybe I should run some benchmarks just to show how great qmail is on a
> piece of dirt machine.
I'd be interested in seeing that sort of statistics too -- closer to
my real world, for one thing :-) .
Note that the person whose configuration you were marveling at is
looking to move 10 MILLION customized individual email messages a day.
His configuration is much bigger than I use for moving mail -- but
he's aiming at moving several orders of magnitude more mail than I
move, too, so that seems fair.
(And gee it's smart to build a test configuration and do some
benchmarking before committing to something that seems likely to push
the limits of hardware / software technology!)
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