Feed directly into qmail-remote, not qmail-queue. Only queue
when you abosolutely have to.
Dirk
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 08:04:44AM -0400, Matthew Harrell wrote:
>
> Okay, I'm trying to pull even more out of my qmail box. It's a dual P2 450
> with 256 MB of RAM and the following qmail configuration:
>
> qmail with fsync's removed
> concurrencyremote set to 120
> big-todo patch installed
> using cyclog and not syslog
>
> I'm getting what appears to be around 60K messages per hour and I'm wondering
> what I can do to get a higher throughput. Any ideas are welcome. I'm using
> a Perl script talking directly to qmail-queue to pump the messages in (each
> of which is slightly unique) and I know that's not the limiter because I have
> to slow the script down to avoid filling the queue up (100K+ messages). Here's
> some output from qmailanalog:
>
> Completed messages: 196952
> Recipients for completed messages: 196956
> Total delivery attempts for completed messages: 197869
> Average delivery attempts per completed message: 1.00466
> Bytes in completed messages: 1152135331
> Bytes weighted by success: 1140658136
> Average message qtime (s): 12.2331
>
> Total delivery attempts: 202944
> success: 195605
> failure: 2398
> deferral: 4941
> Total ddelay (s): 2338545.236874
> Average ddelay per success (s): 11.955447
> Total xdelay (s): 806842.48747
> Average xdelay per delivery attempt (s): 3.975690
> Time span (days): 0.198014
> Average concurrency: 47.1606
>
> I'll send along vmstat entries if anyone thinks it would help. Any ideas?
> I've got multiple boxes here with the same hardware configuration just slated
> for this project but if I'm not able to get the rate much higher I'm probably
> going to have to consider this whole effort a failure.
>
> thanks
>
> --
> Matthew Harrell Behind every great computer sits
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