Performance issues was RE: [geeks] WHATS WRONG WITH YOU

[Christopher Byrne]

Bill,

I saw that post, and I'm sure that's it, I'm jsut wondering why the load is
so strangely distributed. I mean I will literally send two messages within a
minute of one another, and see the second message I sent immediately and the
first message hours later. I just found it odd that the mails came out out
of order, and that two mails ent so close to each other would behave
differently.


That being said It's pretty damned impressive how much mail that one box is
sending every day. Have you thought about using one of the mass remailer or
broadcast mailer services for list responses? That would allow you to
maintain administrative control while redcing the load on the systems.

Chris Byrne

-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Bill Bradford
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 20:42
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] WHATS WRONG WITH YOU

I addressed this a couple days ago - this isnt the only list on the machine,
and outgoing mail (e.g., the stuff you get back) has to fight for the queue
with other lists on here - Sunhelp-list has around 800 people, the
sunmanagers
list has over 3K, etc.. so "return time" also depends on the load of the
other lists and the traffic they're seeing.

Sun-managers list, for example, gets around 30-50 messages/day.  Mutiply
that by 3000 subscribers (50 x 3000) - thats 150,000 outgoing mails per
day - JUST for that list....  I'd say this box does at least 200,000
outgoing emails a day, total.  (wow...)

Like I said, I'm upgrading to Postfix soon, and will be able to prioritize
some of the delivery.  Stuff is making it *to* the lists instantly, its just
taking a bit to get back out.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX
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