Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:17:08 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com> To: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net> Cc: Jesper Skriver <jesper@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qmail IO--qmail vs postfix competition Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0102201516110.30504-100000@gandalf.bravenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0102201509320.18356-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com>
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On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:13:11 -0800 (PST) > From: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net> > To: Jesper Skriver <jesper@FreeBSD.org> > Cc: Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: qmail IO--qmail vs postfix competition > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Jesper Skriver wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:22:57AM -0800, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > > My company (online greeting cards) sent our 4 million emails in 4 hours > > > using a cluster of about 30 mailers with qmail on FreeBSD (old version of > > > FreeBSD at that). That averages to 16,666 mail messages per minute or > > > about 500 per minute per server. The best part was the servers weren't > > > breaking a sweat. > > > > Is that 4 million different emails, or a much lower number of mails with > > multiple recipients ? > > Yep, that's 4 million unique emails. Actually, I should qualify that, it > took 4 hours for the mail servers to accept and queue them. The outgoing > probably took a bit longer, but from the way the queues stacked up, it > probably wasn't more than 5 hours to get all the deliverable messages out > (except for excite.com which wasn't taking mail at the time). > > -gordon > when you say "about 30 mailers" are you talking about 30 separate machines? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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