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Re: Server sizing methodology?

From: Philoux (philouxneuf.fr)
Date: Sun May 07 2006 - 10:51:15 CDT


Stewart, John a écrit :
> But I wonder how we get hard numbers on the IO operations per second that we
> require in order to have some real data on justification for hardware...
> googling around and searching the postfix list, I'm finding occasional
> individual sizing questions, but no good howtos on sizing in general for
> postfix. Any suggestions?

If you want to do it properly, you can use mstone :
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mstone/

With this tool, you would be able to simulate real traffic.

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Philoux