You count or measure system load... that's part of the scripts that you need to
create to feed into the qmail-remotes.
Dirk
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 03:17:33PM -0700, Mylo wrote:
> That's sounding happy, but how do you limit the number of qmail-remote's that are
> gonna get spawned. Aren't you running the risk of thousands, or should I say
> millions of them starting at once.
>
> -- Tim "Mylo" Madams
> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> once
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > We something similar for a client a while ago. They are now mailing their
> > newsletters out at a rate of 150,000/hour with two machines. The trick is
> > to use qmail-remote directly and only queue stuff that doesn't get out the
> > first try.
> >
> > Dirk
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 01:04:25PM -0700, Mylo wrote:
> > > Not sure if this went through the first time, I got a help msg back
> > > so here goes again:
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > > I am investigating using qmail to send a mass mailing to our 2M user base.
> > > Currently we have been using sendmail. First, let me describe our current
> > > setup. We have 26 different sendmail's running as deamons on 26 different
> > > mqueue's. We then have a program that pulls user information out of our
> > > database and creates the qfAA and dfAA files into these queue's. It dumps
> > > 10,000 messages in each queue, then moves onto the next queue, leaving
> > > sendmail to distribute the messages from the queue. This is however,
> > > insanely slow. From what I've seen/read/and heard Qmail will be able to
> > > accomplish our 2M mailing a lot faster than sendmail, however I believe that
> > > a large part of our bottleneck is that we create queue files and expect
> > > sendmail to recognize it. Okay, now to the question: What would be the
> > > best way of doing this with Qmail? Running multiple deamons on multiple
> > > queue's? or can Qmail do this all automatically. I am very unfamiliar with
> > > the Qmail configuration so any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
> > > Please reply directly to <A HREF="maito:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> [EMAIL PROTECTED] </A>.
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > -- Tim "Mylo" Madams
> > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> >
>
