Cris Daniluk wrote:
>
> We've been tryin to do some more reliable and dependable benchmarking of
> qmail in our experimentation, but it is very difficult. One of the "nice
> things" (one of?) about ms smtp server is the fact that nt performance
> monitor can keep track of it. We can see how many messages per second are
> being sent, how many concurrent connections, etc. While it is easy to
> monitor concurrent connections by a good old ps auxww |grep qmail-remote
> |wc -l, it is not exactly well represented, nor scientific. Messages per
> second can really only be done by monitoring qstat and a stop watch, or by
> sending to a pool of ms smtp servers and monitoring them. It would be truly
> wonderful if we could get more concrete and scientific results of all of
> this, because I think it would be an excellent way to demonstrate the power
> of qmail, and I think it would be a wonderful tribute to everyone who has
> put their time into the project. They all deserve a lot of credit, and this
> seems to be the best way to give them that due credit. Are there any
> available benchmarking tools? If not, I think it would be worthwhile to
> develop them. If no one is interested in developing them, we may be able to
> devote some internal time to doing it, provided we can get some insight into
> the inner workins of qmail, etc.
Have a look at qmail-analog.
--
Andre
