From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 20 15:13:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com (sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com [192.215.234.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3377137B503 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:13:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gordont@bluemtn.net) Received: (qmail 17296 invoked by uid 1078); 20 Feb 2001 23:13:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Feb 2001 23:13:11 -0000 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:13:11 -0800 (PST) From: Gordon Tetlow X-X-Sender: To: Jesper Skriver Cc: Dan Phoenix , Subject: Re: qmail IO--qmail vs postfix competition In-Reply-To: <20010220234215.C87801@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Jesper Skriver wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:22:57AM -0800, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > My company (online greeting cards) sent our 4 million emails in 4 hours > > using a cluster of about 30 mailers with qmail on FreeBSD (old version of > > FreeBSD at that). That averages to 16,666 mail messages per minute or > > about 500 per minute per server. The best part was the servers weren't > > breaking a sweat. > > Is that 4 million different emails, or a much lower number of mails with > multiple recipients ? Yep, that's 4 million unique emails. Actually, I should qualify that, it took 4 hours for the mail servers to accept and queue them. The outgoing probably took a bit longer, but from the way the queues stacked up, it probably wasn't more than 5 hours to get all the deliverable messages out (except for excite.com which wasn't taking mail at the time). -gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message