Paul Robinson <paul@???> wrote:
>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.
It changes it a lot. When operating at full whack, my relays are using
pretty much all of their CPU and all of their disk.
Tony.
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