with local MySQL, kannel is able to handle millions of messages per hour, I believe the bottleneck is the carrier's throughput
Best Regards, Mohammed M I Sleem http://www.abusleem.net - Personal blog On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Richard Crawshaw < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > > > I’m after some pointers for achieving best performance when handling DLRs. > > > > We’re running Kannel 1.5.0 on Ubuntu 10.04 (32 bit) on a VMWare virtual > machine on a Windows 2003 host (64 bit). > > > > Of the two options that appear to be open to us which is likely to perform > best? > > * A new installation of MySql on the Ubuntu virtual machine; or > > > * An existing installation of MS SQL Server 2005 on a separate > machine on the same network. > > > > The Ubuntu machine has 512M Bytes memory and 8G Bytes local storage > allocated to it; it has a single processor. These can be increased if > necessary; the host is a quad-core Intel Xeon 3.16G Hz with 8G Bytes memory, > of which it is using about half. > > > > We need to achieve a peak SMS through-put of 150K messages an hour (~42 > messages a second). We’re managing this with DLRs handled using internal > storage, but obviously internal storage isn’t robust enough. > > > > Many thanks. > > > > Richard >
