[Gross] performance question

[Eino Tuominen]

Tomas Charvat wrote:
> greetings,
> 
> im just wondering, what's performance of grossd GL.
> Can you handle lets say more that 30.000 uniq gl_queries per seconds in 
> single thread on x64 cpu running 1.7-2.0Ghz ?

Hi,

I don't have any recent data but I quote a two year old post of mine:

 > FYI, I just run some very non-scientific performance tests. grossd was
 > running on a recently bought low end PC, and clients was run on the
 > same server.
 >
 > 1 client doing 10000 queries: 10 seconds
 > 5 client doing 10000 queries each: 11.5 seconds
 > 10 clients doing 10000 queries each: 13.5 seconds
 >
 > The last run means 100000 queries running a total of 500000
 > dns-queries, as check-dns was enabled (of course, they were
 > on the same ip address, which means that the results were
 > cached on the resolving servers). With 10 parallel clients
 > you get at least some 650 million messages a day, if your
 > dns servers will cope the load.
 >
 > Rather impressing, mildly put.

And that is when doing 5 dns requests per query. As a pure greylisting 
server grossd would be an order of magnitude faster.

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   Eino Tuominen