Re: Postfix consultancy to tune performance

2014-07-31 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:55:06AM +0100, Andrew Beverley wrote: > > You've suddenly switched topics from message injection, for which > > the default limits are more than ample to global process limits, > > which for an MTA that mostly sends control delivery concurrency. > > Sorry, I misundersto

Re: Postfix consultancy to tune performance

2014-07-31 Thread Andrew Beverley
On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 01:56 +, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:07:18AM +0100, Andrew Beverley wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 22:43 +, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > > > Connection re-use does not prevent concurrency, you'd need a pool > > > of connections or parallel submiss

Re: Postfix consultancy to tune performance

2014-07-30 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:07:18AM +0100, Andrew Beverley wrote: > On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 22:43 +, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > > Connection re-use does not prevent concurrency, you'd need a pool > > of connections or parallel submission processes pulling messages > > from the application queue. Co

Re: Postfix consultancy to tune performance

2014-07-30 Thread Andrew Beverley
On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 22:43 +, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > Connection re-use does not prevent concurrency, you'd need a pool > of connections or parallel submission processes pulling messages > from the application queue. Concurrency is more important than > connection re-use. Ah, okay. Is defau

Re: Postfix consultancy to tune performance

2014-07-30 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:33:31PM +0100, Andrew Beverley wrote: > One more similar question: is there much value in reusing the same > connection to send each email? Obviously that removes the expense of > creating a connection, but prevents parallel submission. Should I be > trying to do both?

Re: Postfix consultancy to tune performance

2014-07-30 Thread Andrew Beverley
On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 14:23 +, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:06:34AM +0100, Andrew Beverley wrote: > > > Incidentally, I am submitting using the sendmail command, rather than > > SMTP (against the advice of the tuning README) - how much difference is > > this likely to ma

Re: Postfix consultancy to tune performance

2014-07-30 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:06:34AM +0100, Andrew Beverley wrote: > Incidentally, I am submitting using the sendmail command, rather than > SMTP (against the advice of the tuning README) - how much difference is > this likely to make? This doubles the disk I/O cost of message delivery and serializ

Re: Postfix consultancy to tune performance

2014-07-30 Thread Andrew Beverley
On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 11:34 +0200, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: [...] > spit a lot of messages in the queue means that from the > application side the sending process is done, deliver > bulk mail to the final RCPT is a different story Thanks for the additional info. > for *really* large amount of mail

Re: Postfix consultancy to tune performance

2014-07-30 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 30.07.2014 11:27, schrieb Andrew Beverley: > On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 11:12 +0200, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: >> Am 30.07.2014 11:06, schrieb Andrew Beverley: >>> I am looking for somebody who can provide consultancy to help me tune >>> some Postfix installations. Can anybody provide recommendations?

Re: Postfix consultancy to tune performance

2014-07-30 Thread Andrew Beverley
On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 11:12 +0200, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: > Am 30.07.2014 11:06, schrieb Andrew Beverley: > > I am looking for somebody who can provide consultancy to help me tune > > some Postfix installations. Can anybody provide recommendations? > > tune *what* context Mail delivery. Lots of

Re: Postfix consultancy to tune performance

2014-07-30 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 30.07.2014 11:06, schrieb Andrew Beverley: > I am looking for somebody who can provide consultancy to help me tune > some Postfix installations. Can anybody provide recommendations? tune *what* context > I can provide further details if needed, but in a nutshell I am > delivering a lot of li

Postfix consultancy to tune performance

2014-07-30 Thread Andrew Beverley
Hi Guys, I am looking for somebody who can provide consultancy to help me tune some Postfix installations. Can anybody provide recommendations? I can provide further details if needed, but in a nutshell I am delivering a lot of list email which is generated using Perl scripts. I would prefer an