Re: [AMaViS-user] load bunnies
Hi, El jue, 07-12-2006 a las 15:46 -0500, Matt Herzog escribió: What is a good way to put a heavy load on an amavis machine? How to simulate a heavy spam assault? If you have postfix, you can use smtp-source: SMTP-SOURCE(1) NAME smtp-source - multi-threaded SMTP/LMTP test generator SYNOPSIS smtp-source [options] [inet:]host[:port] smtp-source [options] unix:pathname DESCRIPTION smtp-source connects to the named host and TCP port (default: port 25) and sends one or more messages to it, either sequentially or in parallel. The program speaks either SMTP (default) or LMTP. Connections can be made to UNIX-domain and IPV4 servers. IPV4 is the default. Regards, -- -- Rafael Varela Pet Area de Tecnoloxías da Información e Comunicacións Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 15782 Santiago de Compostela http://www.usc.es/atic -- - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
Re: [AMaViS-user] load bunnies
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:30:15AM +0100, Rafael Varela Pet wrote: El jue, 07-12-2006 a las 15:46 -0500, Matt Herzog escribió: What is a good way to put a heavy load on an amavis machine? How to simulate a heavy spam assault? If you have postfix, you can use smtp-source: SMTP-SOURCE(1) NAME smtp-source - multi-threaded SMTP/LMTP test generator This is a good suggestion for supplemental load if needed. It's been a while since I used it, but as I recall smtp-source (also Russell Coker's postal) generates its own messages with general text content, which means it's good for testing overall MTA performance but the messages are not typical of spam content. The result is that you won't get realistic performance numbers for the SpamAssassin analysis phase, which dominates the overall throughput. That is why I advocate using reasonably current folders of genuine spam or valid mail, at least as part of your testing - they'll take a realistic amount of CPU per message. If you have trouble getting up to adequate load numbers that way, then you can supplement it with smtp-source, but in my experience a machine with comparable specs to the mailserver can pretty easily generate more load than the mailserver can handle. HTH, -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
[AMaViS-user] load bunnies
What is a good way to put a heavy load on an amavis machine? How to simulate a heavy spam assault? -- Announcing your plans is a good way to hear the gods' laughter. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
Re: [AMaViS-user] load bunnies
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 03:46:22PM -0500, Matt Herzog wrote: What is a good way to put a heavy load on an amavis machine? How to simulate a heavy spam assault? It's not too hard. You can pretty easily cook something up with formail (part of the procmail tool suite), a folderful of spam, and some sort of simple SMTP client. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
