On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 03:06:04PM -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
> I am curious if postfix would be able to send out 300000 emails in one
> hour, to different recipients of course. Taking into account
> http://www.postfix.org/TUNING_README.html and other such performance tuning
> guides. This would only happen once a week or so. The important part is the
> need to send them all in one hour, more or less.
$ echo 1k 300000 3600 / p | dc
83.3
Postfix will easily handle 83 deliveries a second, provided that:
- The disk subsystem is server-grade.
- The network link can sustain the output bandwidth
- The destination networks are not throttling your output or
severely limiting your concurrency.
> Considering 300000 per hour equates to about 83 emails per second and given
> a reasonably fast server (over specced since I doubt CPU and RAM would be
> the bottleneck here) I would think one server could handle this.
A lot depends on where the mail is going and the concurrency limits and
delivery latencies of those destinations.
--
Viktor.
