Ian Layton wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I have recently installed Qmail on an Alpha box for my boss. I got it to
> send a simulated 100K message per hour through a dirty benchmark I wrote. My
> boss wants more than that. I believe that the slow up is in qmail-inject. Is
> there any way to make qmail-inject faster or bypass it totally? If so...how
> is it done. Also, has anyone else gotten qmail to send anything in the range
> I have?
>
> Ian Layton
It's all because of disk I/O. Anything you can do to speed up disk
I/O will help, including:
1) Apply the big todo patch
2) Increase the number in the conf-split file and re-install
3) Change conf-spawn to 255 and reinstall
4) Get a Flash IDE disk for your queue ... or..
5) Run qmail's queue on a disk drive all by itself
6) send qmail's log output to /dev/null
I've seen machines that at max were doing 80 qmail-remotes.
When we put in an Flash IDE disk, that number jumped to
255 and stayed there.
Ken Jones
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