[NBLUG/talk] Stress Testing servers

Steve srj at adnd.com
Thu Nov 13 10:23:00 PST 2003


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!

-Steve


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