On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Lone Deranger wrote:
> In the immortal words of Chris Taylor (chris@christaylor.com):
> >
> > It seems to me, that on a decent PC-based OS, say FreeBSD or even Linux, you
> > could up the number of sendmail processes (assuming adequate bandwidth to
> > the machine) and send out very, very large mailing lists on a machine
> > dedicated to mailing. Any thoughts.
>
> Given even a sparse hardware configuration (say a pentium-90 PC with
> 32-64Mb of memory), you can tune sendmail delivery such that your
> available network bandwidth, not the machine itself, is the limiting
> factor.
>
> http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa97/21.kolstad.html
>
> -n
>
But did you remember the origional request? 100,000 subscribers with a
potential of over 1,000,000,000 E-mail messages a day!!! On a Pentium
90???
--Hal.
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