From: Ben Johnson (benindietorrent.org)
Date: Wed Jun 12 2013 - 15:46:33 CDT

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On 6/12/2013 4:40 PM, fletch wrote:
> Peer,
>
> There's no way that's a production figure. You may have queued that many,
> but I seriously doubt you got anything close to 3-4 million/hour when
> postfix was actually conducting delivery with the remote gateways...
>

This point is somewhat moot, quite frankly, because the performance
claims as documented on Wikipedia state:

Postfix has been clocked at ~300 message deliveries/second[6] across the
Internet, running on commodity hardware (a vintage-2003 Dell 1850 system
with battery-backed MegaRAID controller and two SCSI disks). This
delivery rate is an order of magnitude below the "intrinsic" limit of
2500 message deliveries/second[6] that was achieved *with the mail queue
on a RAM disk while delivering to the "discard" transport (with a
dual-core Opteron system in 2007).*

Nobody (besides perhaps Peer) is making any claim with respect to
"real-world" performance. The performance claims as documented assume
factors only within Postfix and the computer on which it's runnings'
control.

-Ben

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