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[Olivier Salaun <address@concealed>]

jstrudwick wrote:
> 
> Was just curious if there is a way to see some perfomance stats with Sympa?
> 
> Such as how long did the initial process of sending all the emails to 
> Sendmail take, 
> I recall from the documentation that takes just under 6 minutes on a 300Mhz 
> w/ 256Mb
> ram to send out 20,000 emails.

That's the kind of performences we have on our server, which has a good 
connectivity
and a sendmail that has been tuned.

> I would like to be able to reliably calculate these sorts of figures for 
> myself,
> considering one of the lists on the server has ~60,000, and be able to tune 
> accordingly.

When a message has been sent, Sympa log file provides the process time and the
amount of sendmail processes used :
        Mar 20 22:15:11 listes sympa[6223]: Processing message for sample-l 
with priority
                5, <20020320210144.18011@messageID>  
        Mar 20 22:17:53 listes sympa[6223]: Message for sample-l from
                sender@xxx accepted (162 seconds, 339 sessions), size=9641 
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^^^^^^

(sample-l mailing list has 10 000 subscribers)

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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseau des Universités