A good tool for benchmark mailservers is postal:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/postal/

Maybe this will help all these peolpe which are intressted in thorughput
etc.


Am Sonntag, den 12.03.2006, 17:13 +0100 schrieb Stefano Bagnara:
> Bernd Fondermann wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Finally, I managed to run the same scenario as described below with 
> > 2.3.0a1. 80603 mails sent, 0 lost. Performance seems to be basically 
> > identical which is good news.
> 
> 
> How did you find the performance are the same?
> I'm not sure I understood the test...
> 
> You send always 52 mails per minute so you should spool 52*1440 (minutes 
> per hour) = 74880 message.
> 
> Why your results are 80600 for both servers?
> 
> To find the performance you  should as many mails as james is able to 
> handle and slow down only when the spool start increasing it size.
> A good way would be to set a number of messages to send in "queue" and 
> send more new messages only after receiving a few from the remote 
> delivery (Mail Gateway'ing) or reading them from the pop3 server (not 
> sure I explained what I mean).
> 
> Scenario:
> 1. queue size = 100
> 2. postage start sending 100 messages to the server, checking pop3 
> folders and checking incoming smtp messages.
> 3. after a message is received by the remote delivery or read from the 
> pop3 server, postage send a new message to the server.
> 
> This way the total messages sent depends on the spooling speed and not 
> on the messages per minute you set.
> 
> To be more compliant with your "scenario" configuration we can think 
> that your numbers are not meant "per minute" but "per send unit".
> 
> You know you have 52 messages "per send unit" in your scenario. You 
> start sending a number of unit (1 to 10 units seems reasonable), then 
> you send a new one only after every 52 messages you receive from the 
> remote delivery or pop3 server.
> 
> Does it make sense? Is this possible with "postage architecture"?
> 
> Stefano
> 
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