On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 11:33:29AM +0100, Thomas König wrote:
[snip]
> qmail (standard tgz file with only the qmail-date-localtime patch) is
> compiled with:
> conf-split = 300
That conf-split is ridiculous. It is way higher than necessary, *and*
it is not prime.
> conf-spawn = 255
>
> /var/qmail/bin:
> concurrencylocal = 30
> concurrencyremote = 100
You might want to up concurrencyremote a lot :)
> Now I has tried to send a Newsletter to 180.000 subscribers. The system
> needs 5 1/2 hours
> for delivery( 9 mails per second), but I mean it's to long?!
> The average bandwich during the delivery is 70k-100k it's to slightly for an
> 100mbit Connection.
>
> If I look for qmail processes, ther are only 3-5 qmail-remote processes.
> netstat -an show me 100-200 socket connections to smpt servers on port 25.
> vmstat shows an average idle time between 65%-78%.
> memory use is ca. 200 MB, swap is untouched.
>
> What can I do, for higher performance?
Apply the big-concurrency patch, use ezmlm for your mailinglist.
> Have I errors in my configuration?
Yes, your conf-split is broken.
Greetz, Peter.
