Re: [exim] speed testing/benchmarking tools

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Author: Rob Parker
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To: Andrew
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] speed testing/benchmarking tools
I used postal (http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ or freebsd ports!) to
test the performance of my last Exim installation vs. a Postfix install.
It can generate random messages and send them a defined rates, and
seemed to do the job quite well for me.

Cheers,

Rob.

Andrew wrote:
> Hi EveryOne!
>
> After putting my Exim configuarting together, I would like to do some
> speed testing....
>
> What I had in mind was a variable number of threads, sending emails at
> variable rates
> (eg, I could have 5 threads sending emails through at one per second).
>
> Each email must be unique... I don't want my server caching anything in
> memory, etc, etc. I was thinking about using the spamarchive.org as a
> source for lots of email :)
>
> I was going to write a simple script myself, but I thought that
> something like this would have been done before.... (Does anyone have
> any scripts lying around that could help me?)
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew.
>
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