RE: [Exim] Performance issues

> I am running exim 3.36 on a single P4 1.6GHz RedHat 7.3 machine
> with 768mb of RAM. A single Perl programme is generating email.
> It seems that we have a capacity limit on that machine of 12,250
> deliveries per hour.
>
> Setup is pretty much default, i.e. we are not using split spool
> directories.
>
> Can anybody give me ideas on how to get this figure up? I would
> dearly love to get to 50,000 per hour per server. I have a
> sustained requirement for 1-2 million emails per server per day.
> This is not a spamming application - but a very large system of
> double opt-in lists with a VERY low rate of complaints or problems.

Funny how jaded I've become. "This is not Spam" now means "Well of course
its Spam" to me.


>
> Any clues appreciated.

Look at perl as the bottleneck.


Also can you tell me what IP your server runs on? :)