From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 20 15:17:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gandalf.vi.bravenet.com (gandalf.bravenet.com [139.142.105.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4DDF37B401 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:17:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dphoenix@bravenet.com) Received: (qmail 12375 invoked by uid 1000); 20 Feb 2001 23:17:08 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Feb 2001 23:17:08 -0000 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:17:08 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Phoenix To: Gordon Tetlow Cc: Jesper Skriver , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qmail IO--qmail vs postfix competition In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:13:11 -0800 (PST) > From: Gordon Tetlow > To: Jesper Skriver > Cc: Dan Phoenix , 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