Ug. You're invoking qmail-queue for each recipient? Is that necessary?
Most of your system resources are probably spend putting individual messages
into the queue and deleting individual messages as they're delivered.
Try this as an alternative injection script:
(
sed s/^/Bcc: / <list
cat /tmp/message
) /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
Each delivery will only require the sync writing of one byte to say the
recipient got it rather than wholesale deletion of a message. Each insertion
is just one extra recipient in the list rather than wholesale message
insertion.
Regards.
At 12:51 AM Thursday 4/8/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>What speed should one be able to expect from qmail?
>
>A client of ours is delivering a newsletter to 230,000
>people which we are feeding into the queue like this:
>
>#! /bin/sh
>
>for address in `cat list`
>do
>
>echo -ne "[EMAIL PROTECTED]\000T$address\000\000" >/tmp/address
>sed s/xxxx/$address/g /tmp/message | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue 1<
/tmp/address
>
>echo $address >>log
>done
>
>Current speed is 20,000-40,000/hour on a PPRO200/PII350 with
>SCSI drives. Anybody know a better/faster way?
>
>Dirk
