[Mailman-Developers] VERPing: ouch!
Fil
fil at rezo.net
Tue Jul 13 14:28:34 CEST 2004
> > for 152991 recips, completed in 31782.241 seconds
>
> How does this compare to a normal, non-VERPed delivery for this list?
grep -E "1..... recips" logs/smtp
May 27 16:43:46 2004 (440) <20040527135407.74A5F368143 at alan.rezo.net> smtp
for 151942 recips, completed in 1231.438 seconds
Jun 11 19:05:45 2004 (440) <20040611163245.ED9CB3680AE at alan.rezo.net> smtp
for 152333 recips, completed in 649.634 seconds
Jun 30 15:39:26 2004 (435) <20040630132741.F1A0836811C at alan.rezo.net> smtp
for 152717 recips, completed in 428.891 seconds
Jul 13 02:05:22 2004 (435) <20040712150834.DCA153680BD at alan.rezo.net> smtp
for 152991 recips, completed in 31782.241 seconds
> I ask because Chuq Von Rospach has done some calculations on what
> should theoretically happen to your performance if you enable VERP,
> but I don't know of anyone who has actually timed the performance
> difference on large lists.
Usually the sending (mailman to postfix to 90% of users) takes a bit more
than two hours ; yesterday it took about 6 hours. But more importantly, the
Mailman -> postfix thing took 5 hours instead of ~ 15 minutes.
> This is really more of an MTA limitation, although there might be
> some things we can do to try to work around it with Mailman. For
> example, it might be faster/lower overall load on the server if we
> had the MTA do the VERPing for us -- we're pretty sure that's
> supported by some MTAs (e.g., at least some versions of Exim), and we
> know it's faster for at least some of them (e.g., Exim).
Probably, yes. I don't konw if postfix can do it "on demand", though there
is http://www.postfix.org/VERP_README.html
-- Fil
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