OSEC

Neohapsis is currently accepting applications for employment. For more information, please visit our website www.neohapsis.com or email hr@neohapsis.com
 
Subject: Re: Large job submissions
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (news-list.postfix.usersinnominate.de)
Date: Wed Jul 05 2000 - 02:14:24 CDT

On 5 Jul 2000 05:30:52 +0200, Francisco Reyes <franreyes.somos.net> wrote:

>That is very good news.
>I will do some testing, but I am leaning towards trying between
>50 and 100 SMTP agents.

Keep in mind that the master.cf needs to be tuned to allow for 50 and 100
SMTP agents and the process table needs to be large enough to allow for 50
and 100 SMTP agents (don't try this on HP-UX...)

>Ours are also dynamically generated.

Oh!

>We control the program that submits the emails. Will it help if
>we put a small pause every 100 or 1000 emails? What pause would
>help? Is there even a way to measure this? (i.e. messages in
>que so I can see how well we are keeping up with the program
>sending the emails).

You can do some serious testing using Wietse's "smtp-source" program. Have a
look at the "smtpstone" subdir in the source tree. 

-- 
Ralf.Hildebrandtinnominate.de
Dipl.-Informatiker                                        innominate AG
System Engineer                                       networking people
fon: +49.30.308806-44 fax: -77  web: http://innominate.de  pgp: /pgp/rh