ned <ned+ietf-822(_at_)mrochek(_dot_)com> writes:
What's the actual message/second number here?
I've done sustained rates as high as 60 messages a second with INN and no
particularly interesting hardware, and I'm pretty sure people are doing a
lot more than that. Average daily traffic I believe is somewhat less than
that, probably something around 10-20 messages a second for a completely
full feed. Many of those messages are >1MB in size.
One of the differences between mail and news is that with mail, once you
get traffic beyond a certain level, you just add more MX hosts, and you
distribute your users across multiple mail servers, so that no one machine
has to handle all your traffic. There really isn't any way to do that
with news effectively right now; one server pretty much has to process all
incoming news.
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