* Sam Jones <sam_jone...@btinternet.com>: > I guess what I'm querying in a way is some of the sales blurb from > people like PowerMTA & GreenArrow and the remarks they make about open > source solutions like Postfix etc. This one in particular: "Open source > Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs) often max out between 20 and 30 thousand > messages per hour. GreenArrow can send 300,000 messages per hour—more > than ten times as fast."
My desktop machine - the very same one I'm writing this mail on - is currently delivering 65 messages per second to a smtp-sink. On a single 2TB SATA drive that will probably suffer a heart attack if you even so much as threaten it with more than 20 IOPS/s. That's while watching a 1080p video (footage from my last holiday). With no tuning whatsoever. Granted, not a real world use case, but still, don't trust everything you read on the web. Stefan
