Re: [EXIM] Outgoing throughput

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Author: Ben Parker
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To: Jeffrey Goldberg
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Outgoing throughput
Oh yes, we are generating stacks of messages here in a kind of
custom-news-by-e-mail application. That application can produce messages
at a peak of about 110 messages per second. I just need to pump them out
faster!

Ben


On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Ben Parker wrote:
>
> > How many outgoing messages per hour is normal for a given bandwidth? The
> > eximstats log tells me I peak at about 2500 messages outgoing per hour -
> > even at night. I am on a 384k link shared on a campus of about 2000 users.
> > I have allowed a maximum of 20 simultaneous queue runs. Does this sound
> > right (messages are of normal 10k or less size)? Can I speed it up at all?
>
> Something else seems wrong. I am on a campus with about 3500 users and
> rarely get more than 1000 messages per hour. Either you are using email
> in a very different way that we are here (that is possible) or something
> is generating a high number of messages.
>
> -j
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