Re: [exim] Should queue processing be rewritten in Exim?

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Author: Marc Perkel
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To: 'exim-users@exim.org'
Subject: Re: [exim] Should queue processing be rewritten in Exim?


Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 July 2008 09:56:50 Marc Perkel wrote:
>
>
>> The queue is the bottleneck in the system. There must be ways to speed
>> it up.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>
> I strongly believe that setting up a few more physical machines (and round
> robin or something) is the least painfull option. touching the exim code
> that deep sounds very risky and the performance gain doesnt justify the
> masses of work that had to be done.
> hardware is cheap.
>
>

Hardware is cheap but software is cheaper. If we can make software
faster then we don't have to buy more hardware, and provide power and
space for it. Data centers are expensive.