[nycbug-talk] Mail stress test

[Steve Rieger]

Am trying to see what my servers can hold in the following areas

Max concurrent connections for pop

Max concurrent connections for smtp

Max concurrent connections for imap

I will be running these tests on postfix, ms exchange, and sun messaging
server.


I don't quite trust the numbers that the vendors gave me





On 2/25/05 12:45 PM, "Isaac Levy" <ike at lesmuug.org> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 

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