[Asterisk-Users] Mailing List Lag

Andrew Kohlsmith akohlsmith-asterisk at benshaw.com
Fri Jan 23 06:43:32 MST 2004


> Have you ever set up "mailman" on a Linux system?  9,000,000
> would be a real trick setup not something you'd do with a
> standard PC.  You have a rack full of mail servers, raid disks
> and the works.  Lets do some math:

>  There are 60*60*24 seconds in a day 9E6 per messages/day
>  means a little over 100 messages per second sustained 24x7.
>  I really doubt it.

Bah qmail could do it without breaking a sweat.  :-)
But yeah, nine million is a LOT of email.  I know the one server we have 
does about 10-12000/hr, but that's only 288k/day.

Regards,
Andrew



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