Konrad Rzepecki: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > W dniu 18.01.2012 10:29, Simone Ruffilli pisze: > > Hello everyone, > > > > whenever I submit to my postfix server a mail having a massive (~15k) > > recipient list, it takes forever to accept and start delivering it. > > I have similar problem, and I suspect you may also hit it. In my case I > send ~10k-20k mails through sendmail wrapper. My problem is caused by > fsync done on EVERY queued mail. It take on my servers (4 core AMD @ > ext4 @ LVM @ RAID10 @ 8disk) ~ 0.2-0.3s for each one. Sometimes it's > even 0.6s! So simple mail queuing for 15k recipients can take 1 hour or > more...
0.6s for fsync is awful. You need to use a better file system. Wietse