Re: speed of mail() on two servers

jabber, et al -- ..and then jabber@raditha.com said... % % Hello, Hi! % % I recall someone (pardone me i don't save list mails) pointing out that % the delay could actually be in generating the message rather than in the Yep. Nope. % sending. You are sending a customized message to each user aren't you? Yep. % Would you be creating this message from what's in a mysql database or % something like that? My message generation runs through about 800 messages in a bit under three seconds. While that may or may not be fantastic or efficient, it's a couple of orders of magnitude faster than the mail injection :-) % % Have you tried running your php script from the command line instead of Actually, this has always been a CLI script. Those interested can see it at http://killswitcharmy.com/Q/massmail-send-script.php.txt as long as you promise not to laugh at all of the debugging and other crap that's in there at the moment :-) I've managed to pin it down to the qmail injection process, though I haven't gotten farther enough to know whether it's a qmail config issue or an overall OS issue. It isn't php's fault :-) Using mail() takes an extra 70ms over just a system call to qmail-inject directly, so I'll stick with the latter, but a drop from ~0.54 sec to ~0.47 sec isn't nearly as far as I need to go (I need total time to be about 100ms at the most and would love to see 60 *total* so that I can get out some 60k messages in an hour). % the web space? It could be that your httpd.conf has some processor and % memory usage restrictions imposed. I once worked on a server on which it % was impossible to send mail from cgi script. the apache configurations % turned out to be the culprit. Heh :-) % % all the best Thanks & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!