[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I am able to send about 1080 emails per minute, or
> maximum 1.5 million emails per day using qmail 1.03
> patched with DNS Pacth and Large concurrency patch
> from a P-III Dual CPU 1Gig System.
>
> When I send the mails the system load goes very high
> upto 10% - 15% ( load reading according to 'top' command ).
That's 10.0 - 15.0 -- those numbers are _not_ percentages.
> I find that most of the CPU time is used by splogger and syslogd (
> around 85% ) and hence the system slows down So, the number of mails
> being sent per second is getting lesser and lesser.
>
> To avoid this, is there anyway to avoid splogger to start and hence
> stop logging activity by syslogd ??
Yes. See djb's newer instructions and FAQ on his site, or see "Life
with qmail" at http://lifewithqmail.org. You want to install
daemontools and use multilog, skipping splogger entirely.
Charles
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