Re: [exim] setup Exim to improve SMTP performance

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Autor: Olivier Bonvalet
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Assumpte: Re: [exim] setup Exim to improve SMTP performance
Peter Bowyer a écrit :
> 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?
>
> Peter
>

Recipients are mainly public domains : hotmail.com, wanadoo.fr,
hotmail.fr, yahoo.fr, free.fr, aol.com, laposte.net, neuf.fr,
caramail.com, msn.com, voila.fr, club-internet.fr, tiscali.fr,
cegetel.net (lots are french ISP).