[geeks] thoughts on SMTP

[David Passmore]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 10:45:45PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:

>   Now, for VERY LARGE networks like those that Dave Passmore has
> designed mail handling systems for, of course a U1/170 won't come
> close to doing the trick.  But I don't think we're talking about those
> mailmonsters. :) For a few gigs of mail per day, they'll do fine.

Indeed, when you get to several million mailboxes the CPU overhead tends to
be the computational load of namespace searches, coupled with the sheer
number of transactions per second.

David