I ran a few small tests on an old slow system and only looked at messages/second.
Based on my very limited testing SpeedyCGI is slightly faster than forkserver
There could easily be some problems in my test evironment, so these results are more a starting
point for discussion than anything else.
forkserver
$ ./smtpsend -s 10 -c 1 -m 1 -b 4096 -n 100 -F [EMAIL PROTECTED] -T [EMAIL PROTECTED] -S "SMTP Benchmark
test" -v -p 8025
Sending rate: 16.95 messages/minute, 0.28 messages/second
Average delivery time: 3.54 seconds/message
speedyCGI
$ ./smtpsend -s 10 -c 1 -m 1 -b 4096 -n 100 -F [EMAIL PROTECTED] -T [EMAIL PROTECTED] -S "SMTP Benchmark test" -v
Sending rate: 18.63 messages/minute, 0.31 messages/second
Average delivery time: 3.22 seconds/message
The plugins you load will have a big effect on this, particularly dnsbl ones. It would probably be worth testing with all plugins that do network checks turned off.
Also, I wouldn't expect forkserver to be faster than SpeedyCGI as SpeedyCGI means not having to do the fork at all. After you turn off plugins I suspect SpeedyCGI will come out more clearly faster.
The advantage of the forkserver is it's easier to install.
Matt.
