[geeks] thoughts on SMTP

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 08:43:33 (-0800), David Passmore wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] thoughts on SMTP
>
> Any properly designed and balanced system is close to hitting the limit of
> every resource it has at peak usage-- CPU, I/O, bandwidth, memory, disk,
> etc. Anyone with any brains who is designing an ISP mail system for millions
> of transactions will solve the I/O issue and hit CPU and memory bottlenecks.

If you can design a system with any modern server platform which runs an
SMTP mailer (on some kind of unix), even flat out in some test scenario,
and can get anywhere near a constant 50% cpu utilisation for any
significant extended period of time then you've done something wrong in
the design (eg. used software RAID or some such stupid similar thing! :-)

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