Author: Peter Bowyer Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] setup Exim to improve SMTP performance
On 21/03/06, Olivier Bonvalet <olivier.bonvalet@???> wrote: > 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).
How close to the recipients does the 100Mbit/s go?
