[nycbug-talk] Mail stress test

[Isaac Levy]

Wordup Steve,

On Feb 25, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Steve Rieger wrote:

> Does anybody on the list know of a decent script I can run to stress 
> test my
> smtp, pp, and imap servers,

I don't know of any scripts offhand, but I'm curious as to what kind of 
testing you want to do?  i.e. there's loads of testing fun that can be 
done, especially if you have access to servers in different places, 
geographically...  I'd love to start a thread here about tactics based 
on what your doing-

I've found I never really get a true grasp of load until a given server 
is online and has connections coming to it from all over the net, 
different routes, disperate latency, etc... entropy impossible to truly 
reproduce in any lab...

What kinds of stress are you trying to put the boxes through?

Rocket-
.ike