MTA benchmarking

[Jeff Macdonald]

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 14:27, Derek Martin wrote:
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> At some point hitherto, Jeff Macdonald hath spake thusly:
> > The feeder/injector program is my own code. A C program that uses poll
> > for async i/o and sendfile to send mail data. It's configured to deliver
> > 1,000 messages averaging about 50K in size over 100 connections. Each
> > connection uses RSET to send the next message.
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> Is this really a useful benchmark?  Wouldn't you agree that in the
> real world, most e-mail is delivered by an individual per-mail 
> connection?  Personally, I'd be more interested in seeing those
> numbers...
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I'm testing injection rates of bulk mail to SMTP. The scenario outlined
is my worst case at the moment. My 'real world' is millions of
customized messages that need to sent fast. The only variable is message
size.

> > So, I'm curious what I can do to increase postfix's numbers. I'm an
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> Use sendmail?  :)