Re: [Exim] Exim is Unreasonably slow

David Garza <dgtech@???> wrote:

> host_lookup = 0.0.0.0/0

Umm, doesn't that mean you're doing a host lookup on everything? That has to
have a performance impact, even if it's looking the same hostname up every
time.

> system_filter=/etc/blank

So must this - why not take the directive out altogether? There has to be
some processing going on for every mail, even if the file is empty.

Have you tested how fast your mailing list software can generate mails into
/dev/null ?

> I read on the internet that a server was able to get 42 emails per
> second with a 1.13MHz server.

Where did you read that? The internet is a big place. If you quote your
source, maybe investigations can continue.

> 10MPS port/switch
> 1000gb Bandwidth

Is that 1000 Gigabytes/sec or 1000 Gigibits/sec? Makes a big difference,
especially when you've only got a 10Mbit/sec switch port. ;-)

Peter