Thanks Nigel for your help. While not directly fixing the problem, you've certainly given me some good hints that have helped me narrow things down a bit.
Perhaps I should have started with ... ... upgrading the software. The backend system was up to date as Debian Lenny, today I upgraded it to Squeeze (which includes upgraded MySQL from 5.0 to 5.1). The performance is the same, but the errors now appear to have gone. With the errors gone, there aren't the delays there were before while things timed out, but the rate still seems to be limited to about 2 recipients/second. With logging turned down/off, the raw query rate with policyd is now a little over 60 queries/s. It seems to make no difference if I do 20 mails to 50 recipients each, or 100 mails to 10 recipients each. I think for my next test I need to generate mails from more than one system and see if the rate limit is in the mail cluster or the source machine. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.policyd.org/mailman/listinfo/users
