Re: [Mailman-Users] Load testing a mailman server

[Mark Sapiro]

Steve Wray wrote:
>
>So I'd like to do some load testing on it to measure its performance.
>
>I'm wondering if anyone can provide any ideas, insights or warnings with 
>respect to this sort of thing?


There is a script in the distribution - tests/fblast.py

It doesn't produce a report, but you can use it to bombard a list with
mail and then watch what happens to your system. See the docstring at
the beginning of the file for more info.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Load testing a mailman server

[Brad Knowles]

on 8/7/09 12:48 AM, Rakotomandimby Mihamina said:


I'm wondering if anyone can provide any ideas, insights or warnings with
respect to this sort of thing?


I think you should firts enquire the debian and python mailing list 
managers. They could give you some statistics (CPU usage, Network

used, what hardware,...)


We've got some information in FAQ 1.15 at  
with regards to the largest lists that can be run with Mailman, but that 
doesn't directly address the issue of tools to do actual load testing.


Myself, I tend to use the "smtpsource" and "smtpsink" tools that Wietse 
Venema created (available as part of the standard postfix source 
installation, although perhaps not included with binary package versions 
from other sources), along with the "postal" tools written by Russ Coker 
(see ).



If you're going to be doing any benchmarking or load-testing, make sure 
you read, understand, and follow all the various relevant FAQs in the 
Mailman FAQ Wiki, especially in section 6.


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Re: [Mailman-Users] Load testing a mailman server

[Rakotomandimby Mihamina]

08/06/2009 06:29 AM, Steve Wray:

I'm wondering if anyone can provide any ideas, insights or warnings with
respect to this sort of thing?


I think you should firts enquire the debian and python mailing list managers.
They could give you some statistics (CPU usage, Network used, what hardware,...)

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Load testing a mailman server

[J.A. Terranson]

On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Steve Wray wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> we are considering deploying a mailman mailing list server.
> 
> I want to ensure that its fairly lean and that it also performs adequately.
> 
> So I'd like to do some load testing on it to measure its performance.
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone can provide any ideas, insights or warnings with
> respect to this sort of thing?
> 
> Thanks!

Load testing is a very simple and staright forward manner, however, I 
would question the need for it unless you are dealing with lists of 
unusual size or settings (VERP comes to mind).  More data from you would 
help.

//Alif

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[Mailman-Users] Load testing a mailman server

[Steve Wray]

Hi there,

we are considering deploying a mailman mailing list server.

I want to ensure that its fairly lean and that it also performs adequately.

So I'd like to do some load testing on it to measure its performance.

I'm wondering if anyone can provide any ideas, insights or warnings with 
respect to this sort of thing?


Thanks!


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