Real Expectations..

[G. Armour Van Horn]

I don't keep much in the way of stats, but going back to a day before LogWatch
stopped including Sendmail in the report, I had 84MB transferred in 15,204
messages for the day as a whole. During the business day, with the normal loads
from Apache, I rarely see the LA hit .5.

The messages (5K text, 8K HTML) aren't large, but they are certainly larger than
my median incoming message.

Van

Antony Stone wrote:

> On Sunday 07 September 2003 8:40 am, G. Armour Van Horn wrote:
>
> > I don't know how it compares to a Sparc, but I'm running an AMD K6-2/500
> > with 384 MB of RAM, RedHat 8.0, Sendmail per RH RPM, MailScanner 4.23-11,
> > f-prot, SpamAssassin 2.6. Every morning I send out the Quotes of the Day
> > through this machine, which uses a Perl script to merge the address lists
> > with the e-mails and dumps it off to Sendmail. The load average goes to 10
> > or thereabouts during the mail run, but it gets through 6,200 messages in
> > less than two hours while handling any incoming mail.
>
> These Quote of the Day emails are going to be quite short (I hope!) in
> comparison to the "average" email coming in or going out through a normal
> system, they won't have any attachments which need unpacking or virus
> scanning, and the spam check is going to be pretty trivial too.
>
> It would be interesting to know, as well as the fact you can process 6,200 of
> these messages in something under 2 hours at a load average of 10, how many
> normal messages your system processes during the following 6 hours of the
> business day, and what its load average is during that time.
>
> Regards,
>
> Antony.
>
> --
>
> It wasn't a sight to be seen on an empty stomach, although it could probably
> cause one.
>
>  - Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

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