You are correct ;) Sendmail can only sustain one exsistance of it's
delivery object meaning it can't multithread like the newer MTA's soo
when sendmail runs a large q say 10k messages all those messages go into
q and get piped out through one thread instance of sendmail whereas qmail
simply fires up 500 threads and crunches through the q message by message
until it's done. You can also reconfigure qmail to allow up to 1k
concurrency and if you really want mailing power you can edit and
recompile your system and qmail and go up as high as you want. I have
mine set at 800 on 6 different servers and have never had a bootleneck...
Anyways theres my two cents .. Now I go home and sleep (trying to
remember what that word actually means)
--JT
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 4/25/01, 4:42:34 PM, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
regarding Re: max concurrency for qmail is 500, what's it for sendmail?:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:59:04PM -0700, Brett wrote:
> > Does anybody know the maximum concurrency for sendmail? From what I
> > understand, with the big concurrency patch, it's 500 for qmail but I
can't
> > find any data on sendmail. Thanks in advance.
> 1 if I'm not totally mistaken...
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