On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 04:51:10PM -0000, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
> My point was: qmail should interpret 25% of this load as the
> capability of these computers are 4x what a normal computer
> can handle with the same configuration in 1x.
>
> I want mail delivery to go much faster, the computer can do
> much better than this!!! I want the qmail-send program to deliver
> 4x as many mails.
Mail delivery is typically not CPU bound. You could probably add
another 4 CPUs and not see any significant improvement in throughput.
Mail delivery is pretty much 100% I/O bound. And, with the way qmail
writes its queue files, it becomes mostly seek-time bound as well (due
to running many fsync's).
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Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/
