[TriLUG] sendmail vs. postfix - was Re: stupid sendmail question?

[Ben Pitzer]

Yeah, just ignore me, I guess.  10-15+ is probably a more realistic number
in terms of truly heavy load.

Regards,
Ben Pitzer

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
> Behalf Of Steve Williams
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 1:59 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] sendmail vs. postfix - was Re: stupid sendmail
> question?
>
>
> 14-15 messages/sec is a 24 hour average load for the boxes that
> Ben is used
> to looking at, so his definition of extreme would probably be that or
> higher.
>
> -Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Alan Dorman" <mdorman at debian.org>
> To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 1:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] sendmail vs. postfix - was Re: stupid sendmail
> question?
>
>
> > "Ben Pitzer" <uncleben at mindspring.com> writes:
> >
> > > The fact is that none of us, to my knowledge, have ever tried to
> > > scale Postfix to extreme levels, but I'd be interested to hear from
> > > some party who has tried to do so.  Perhaps we could ask Weitse if
> > > he knows of anyone who has tried, and what level of success they
> > > have experienced.
> >
> > What are extreme levels?
> >
> > I run an anti-spam service, and we easily handle 2 messages/sec on
> > $1700 systems that are doing the mail receiving, spam filtering, virus
> > scanning, forwarding as well as storage and retrieval (through a web
> > interface) of sidelined mail.
> >
> > I have, in test situations, pumped at least 8 messages/sec through
> > less powerful systems.
> >
> > Are those considered extreme?
> >
> > Mike
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