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Subject: Re: Large job submissions
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (news-list.postfix.usersinnominate.de)
Date: Tue Jul 04 2000 - 09:13:24 CDT

On 4 Jul 2000 15:08:18 +0200, Jonathan Bartlett <johnnybwolfram.com> wrote:
>Postfix is a very well-behaved mailer. I don't think that there is any
>way to bring a machine to a halt using Postfix like you can with sendmail.
>We have a 200Mhz Linux box (64 MB RAM) that handles a 40,000 member email
>list within a few hours, with the load never going over 2. Also, these
>mails are dynamically generated, so each is a separate message, while you
>are probably just sending one message with 20,000 recipients.

Right now I'm hammering my box with smtp-source. The load goes up to 11 with
amavis/AVP, but mail goes in & out smoothly. I wonder how AntiVir will
handle the load. 

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