[NBLUG/talk] Stress Testing servers

[Steve]

Ya, I was kidding about testing spamassasin later =)
 Its all installed now =)  I'm going to work up some scripts to beat
this machine up later tonight, will let it run
over the weekend and see how things go.


Thanks everyone for the feedback!

-Steve



On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:03:37AM -0800, ME wrote:
> Steve said:
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:15:53AM -0800, ME wrote:
> >> You could quickly place a load of messages to be delivered by taking two
> >> servers that are similar in configuration and setup test account that
> >> have
> >> .forward to process each message and forward the e-mail back to the
> >> first
> >> server sending account which also has a .forward to forward to 2 more
> >> accounts.
> >>
> >> 1 message becomes 2 becomes 4 becomes 8 become 16 becomes 32 become
> >> 64...
> >
> > This is a cool idea also.. Hmm.. =)  I may just go this route.
> >
> >
> >> Another method is to pubslish many, many e-mail addresses all over
> >> usenet
> >> and sell them to spammers and let them provide the incoming data to
> >> stress
> >> test your server. ;-)
> >
> > Heheh =) I'll do this when I install spamassassin to stress test that lol!
> 
> Oh. SpamAssassin can be a rather large resource hog. It can use lots of
> memory and disk as well as a little network and disk too. Please install
> spamassassin first, or else any test will show you a max message that is
> higher than what is really functional.
> 
> Also, Kyle brings up a good point and introduces a really good idea. If
> users will be using the same mail server that is used to send/receive
> e-mail to also pickup their email with pop, imap or webmail with imap/pop
> then each of these adds more to the drains on system resources.
> 
> There are command-line based pop and imap clients that can be used to
> query, list and read messages from client machines. These can also be
> automated to simulate loads.
> 
> -ME
> 
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