On 6/12/2013 4:40 PM, fletch wrote: > Peer, > > There's no way that's a production figure. You may have queued that many, > but I seriously doubt you got anything close to 3-4 million/hour when > postfix was actually conducting delivery with the remote gateways... >
This point is somewhat moot, quite frankly, because the performance claims as documented on Wikipedia state: Postfix has been clocked at ~300 message deliveries/second[6] across the Internet, running on commodity hardware (a vintage-2003 Dell 1850 system with battery-backed MegaRAID controller and two SCSI disks). This delivery rate is an order of magnitude below the "intrinsic" limit of 2500 message deliveries/second[6] that was achieved *with the mail queue on a RAM disk while delivering to the "discard" transport (with a dual-core Opteron system in 2007).* Nobody (besides perhaps Peer) is making any claim with respect to "real-world" performance. The performance claims as documented assume factors only within Postfix and the computer on which it's runnings' control. -Ben
