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I thought you might say that.
So is there nothing i can do on the OS side to make things a little faster.
Or general performance enhancements that would show some benefit?


On 03/07/13 19:27, Mark Felder wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 13:02:03 -0500, TJ <tj@wallago.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Well the server is not peaking in CPU its using about 50% and still 
>> has 8GB of RAM free.
>> Yes, i need it to send more email faster and use all the resource 
>> that it has.
>>
>
> You will probably want to talk to people on the Exim lists because 
> your limitation is likely the inability for Exim to effectively use 
> all resources. I suspect they'll tell you that Exim isn't designed for 
> bulk mailing and there isn't much you can do except put your mail 
> spool on a ramdisk and cross your fingers.