On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:50:52PM +0100, Filip Salomonsson wrote:
> Once a month, I send a newsletter to approx. 350k subscribers. The
> newsletters are 15-20 kb each. I've had some not-so-convenient approaches to
> this earlier, but I'd like to start using our Sun Ultra5 (Solaris 7) with
> qmail (patched with big-todo and big-concurrency) and ezmlm for this job. As
> long as I can get most of the messages delivered within 24 hrs, I'll be a
> happy little camper.
>
> I thought I'd raise conf-split and the outbound concurrency limit, set the
> appropriate resource limits (open files, max user processes -- any others?)
> and then let ezmlm and qmail do their job. Am I missing something? Should
> this setup be alright?
Raising conf-split is completely useless with ezmlm. ezmlm only
injects one message into the queue. Outbound concurrency is very
relevant (it will use all of this if you're lucky).
Outbound concurrency depends on having enough fd's available, and
enough memory.
Greetz, Peter.
