Re: [exim] speed testing/benchmarking tools

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Author: Andrew
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To: exim-users
CC: Rob Parker
Subject: Re: [exim] speed testing/benchmarking tools
Hi Rob,

Thanks - postal works great :0 Exactly what I was looking for...

Many Thanks,
Andrew.

Rob Parker wrote:

> 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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