On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 12:47:12PM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
recipients. My goal would be for stock Mailman using a fairly simple installation on relatively common hardware to easily handle 1M recipients.
I guess you'd better define "relatively common hardware". What are we talking about here? Some benchmarking I did of real-world recpieints has shown that a dual PII 450 with a GB of RAM and the mail spool set up on a 500MB RAM disc, and upstream connectivity of dual DS3s, was able to handle around 100k deliveries an hour. This was using qmail with a remote concurrency of 250 and a bunch of little tricks.
So, unless I missed something pretty serious in the configuration of this environment, "relatively common hardware" should include at least a dozen boxes.
Again, this was a real-world list of around 400k addresses of users who had signed up to receive a particular announcement. They have since moved to a cluster of around 10 machines running some custom software and are getting over 1M per hour with that setup.
email lists of varying sizes. I'd like to create lists of 1k, 10k, 100k, 250k, 500k, and 1M recipients. Do you think between us we can gather 1M fake recipients for a test list?
I could probably donate 5% to 10% of that amount across a few upstream lines.
Sean
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