On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 08:08:03PM -0500, Austad, Jay wrote:
> I'm going to have to put some QMQP servers in our other data centers to get
> more speed out of it. We've got 90Mbit/sec worth of bandwidth at each one
> of those, but it'll burst higher.
>
> I noticed that when the messages are broken up into 20,000 rcpt chunks, they
> go out way faster than a bunch of 150,000 rcpt chunks. At our current
> growth rate, we expect over 5,000,000 users per list during the first part
> of 2001. I just have to figure out how to increase the disk IO performance
> or reduce the need for it on the list server box.
How big are your queues? (in disk space terms)?
Can you afford to lose a queue occasionally?
Can you afford a ram disk?
Just as an exercise you might want to run a queue as a memory file system
for a little while, just to see the sort of benefit you could gain.
Regards.
