On 07/06/2010 01:10 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote:
So you have multiple exit points with non-uniform latency, but the more
severe congestion is downstream, so you want to load the exit points
uniformly. Yes, the solution is to disable the connection cache, and
set reasonably low connection and
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 01:37:08PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
On 07/06/2010 01:10 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote:
So you have multiple exit points with non-uniform latency, but the more
severe congestion is downstream, so you want to load the exit points
uniformly. Yes, the solution is to
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 11:21:19AM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
On 06/30/2010 11:17 AM, Wietse Venema wrote:
When sending mail via SMTP, Postfix randomizes the order of
equal-preference server IP addresses.
However, with SMTP connection caching enabled, the faster SMTP
server will get more
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 12:10:41PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
I realize that email delivery is not a trivial problem, but it seems
baffling that a seemingly simple task (fair volume-based load balancing
between transports) is so hard to achieve.
If you want to deliver the same number of
On 07/06/2010 12:27 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote:
If you want to deliver the same number of messages to each server,
regardless of server performance, (message-count fairness, rather than
concurrency fairness), and suffer high latency when a slow server starts
to impede message flow, then turning
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 01:00:14PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
Having multiple exit points seems to improve the overall delivery speed -
this is true even right now, when distribution is skewed to the faster
server 4:1. My estimate is, a near-1:1 distribution would actually fix our
Emails are sent from a machine running Postfix 2.5.0. They are generated
by software as a batch (triggered by certain events from outside), and
injected very quickly into the local Postfix instance, which never sends
out email directly to the Internet, but only through some Postfix
gateways on
When sending mail via SMTP, Postfix randomizes the order of
equal-preference server IP addresses.
However, with SMTP connection caching enabled, the faster SMTP
server will get more mail than the slower SMTP server.
So, you need to be a little more careful with your claims.
Wietse
Florin Andrei:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that doesn't seem possible with Postfix. I
couldn't find any setting that says cut off delivery after N messages.
That would actually make your problem worse. When one host is slower
than the other, and connections are closed after a fixed number of
