On 08/20/2011 12:27 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 8/19/2011 10:50 AM, Noel Jones wrote:
But from the volume you've described, you'll have trouble without
using specialized hardware.
Or a small outbound relay farm comprised of, say, 4 relatively low end
boxen, each with a low power dual core CPU, 8GB RAM, and a ~100GB SSD.
Rewrite the app to submit via SMTP.
The actual outbound is indeed a relay farm of outgoing mail servers
behind LVS.
The application server is just a generation box. And that is where the
bottleneck is.
An application change is anyway required,
But what I would probably have to do is make parallel smtp connections
(which will be much more complex to write :-) )
