Author: Paul Robinson Date: To: exim-users CC: Thomas Fini Hansen Subject: Re: [Exim] exim's databases and sql
Philip Hazel wrote:
>Quite a long time ago now (several years) somebody did send me (or maybe
>posted) the results a test that saturated an Exim system. It was the
>disk accesses the limited it; there was plenty of CPU power left. But
>that's all I can recall.
>
That would make sense as an SMTP server, logically, is I/O or disk-bound
rather than CPU bound. I'd imagine sticking a virus scanner and spam
filter program with Bayesian filters would change it a little.
Shall we try? I have a spare dual-Xeon attached to a Gigabit network I
don't need to do anything proper with for a couple of weeks. If I can
find the time at work next week, I might try something.
I'm very interested actually in real figures for SQL. I don't think I've
ever used exim without it, and I've been using exim since 1998/9 or
thereabouts, I think.
