You need to clarify the problem here. When you say it takes 20 seconds to
send a message, do you mean that it takes 20 seconds from the time you send
a message to the time it arrives somewhere else? Do you mean that you're
watching the logs and it takes qmail 20 seconds to process the message? Do
you mean that it takes qmail-smtpd 20 seconds to respond with a prompt when
you "telnet hostname 25"? Or something else entirely?
Assuming network connectivity is good, DNS is working fine, etc., a Pentium
class machine should process mail pretty quickly as long as it's not
swapping or anything. Have you investigated to see what exactly the machine
is doing in these 20 seconds?
shag
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----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Mon 25 Oct 1999 13.01
Subject: SMTP connections
> Hello All,
>
> Since I didn't get a reply back with this msg, I thought I would try again
:)
>
> With the help of Ken Jones at inter7.com, I have qmail running on a
> slightly faster pent-133 (as opposed to a pent-100), and things are
working
> well, however, how fast should an SMTP connection take to this box (it has
> a static IP which is part of our companys class C), and runs NAT via
> IPchains, smtp/pop3 via qmail v1.03, sshd 1.1.27, samba, etc...to send a
mail
> message takes on average (since this morning) about 20 seconds, and then
it
> is gone...running tcpserver with -H -R, there is a caching DNS server
running
> on the pent-133, and lookups go quite fast (IMO), and UUnet handles our
DNS
> table...Any ideas guys?
>
> Or a better question is how long should an SMTP connection take to form on
> machine which IP address range is in 192.168.3.x (and that range is listed
> in tcp.smtp.cdb)...<blink>
>
> -Bill
>
>
