Re: [exim] setup Exim to improve SMTP performance

Stephen Gran a écrit :
> You'll need to profile to figure out where yourbottleneck is,
> unfortunately. It occurs to me that if 6 servers send 5 emails/second,
> and the email is 5k, that's 150k/s, which is roughly the speed of a T1.
> If I have guessed right, and you have a T1, then there's not much that
> tweaking the server hardware will do.
>
> There are several good tools to benchmark various parts of your hardware
> out there, but the next thing besides bandwidth that occurs to me is
> that IDE disks are fairly slow for a high throughput machine, and you
> may be better off with SCSI disks at least, if not RAID'ed for better
> throughput.
>

Ok thanks. So I'll try to bench this (it's not the bandwith, since I
have a 100Mbit/s for this servers).

I add : this is dedicated servers, there is only Exim on them.