Related sendmail mail queue

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How much memory does this box have?  What kind of HDs?  What's the load 
like when its taking an hour to send mail?  Which version of sendmail? 
Which kernel version?  What kind of network connection do you have (type 
& speed)?

On 06/14/03 18:54, Swapana Ghosh wrote:

> Hi 
> 
>     When i am processing 10,000 subscribers for the
> mailing list testing,  then the records took 15 mints
> to clear the qmail queue and after 15 mints i checked
> that all the records came to sendmail queue and then
> it started for clearing the queue.
>     But when the same testing i did with 50,000 
> records, I guessed that altogether qmail willl take 75
> mints to clear its mailq?
>      But i saw that the processing became very slow in
> the middle. I mean sendmail was accepting the mail
> very slowly....And finally all the mails to come from
> qmail server to sendmail server, took almost 4 hrs....
>      As the qmail doc is telling that qmail clears the
> 50k queue in 1 hr or less(if it does not have any
> deferred mails) then.. what should i think ...Is it
> the sendmail that slagging down the process for
> handling the huge queue? Moreover the server i am 
> using for processing the list where qmail is
> installed, it is
> intel XEON with multiprocessors - I mean physically 4
> CPUs are running.. 
>      I have now created 5 users and each users for
> 10,000   aliases, that means purposely i have
> distributed the records in between 5 users... 
>      How can i process more quickly in my sendmail
> server.. I want that it will process its mail queue
> more quickly so that the qmail server can generate
> 50,000 records to sendmsail server within 1 hr or
> less....
>      In my earlier mail , i have posted the
> sendmail.mc file....
> 
> Your suggession is always appreciated...

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