From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 19 8: 9:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.ny.otec.com (mx1.ny.otec.com [209.3.117.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94FFB37B42C for ; Sat, 19 May 2001 08:09:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelley@otec.com) Received: (qmail 18882 invoked by uid 8064); 19 May 2001 15:53:51 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 May 2001 15:53:51 -0000 Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 11:53:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Kelley X-Sender: dkelley@mx1.ny.otec.com To: Jonathan Fortin Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: clustering In-Reply-To: <007101c0e074$96cfc1c0$020a10ac@node00> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG should be noted that there's a *big* difference between 100000 unique mails and a mailer with 100000 bcc's. if it's the former (and you are using qmail), you'll wnat to do things like putting the queue on it's own disk, and making sure that logging goes to another disk. if it's the latter, the network should be the primary concern. in either case, qmail will handele it. dan On Sat, 19 May 2001, Jonathan Fortin wrote: > Well one tuned box can do a minimum of atleast > 200 * 86400 = 17,280,000 (17 million) emails per day. > which would be 720,000 mails per hour depending on the type of connection > and latency you got. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ask Bjoern Hansen" > To: "Luke Kearney" > Cc: "Free BSD" > Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 6:41 AM > Subject: Re: clustering > > > > On Sat, 19 May 2001, Luke Kearney wrote: > > > > > The mail servers will need to handle up to 100000 mails in one mail out > so > > > am thinking to go with Qmail unless anyone can give me some better > > > alternatives. > > > > One welltuned box with qmail and dnscache should easily be able to > > send out 100000 mails per hour. That's less than 30 per second... > > > > > > > > - ask > > > > -- > > ask bjoern hansen, http://ask.netcetera.dk/ !try; do(); > > more than 100M impressions per day, http://valueclick.com > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message