Optimizing nginx mail proxy

[Azusa Taroura]

Hello!

The "request" means  send mail request on the SMTP/SMTPS connection.
The "performance result" means the speed per minutes for the mail sending.

So you're right about the following point.

> Most critical parts from 
> performance point of view are your auth_http backend and your SMTP 
> backend.

I understand that worker_connections and ssl_session_cache are seems to be
useful as the performance of mail.
 Thank you for your answer:)


Maxim Dounin Wrote:
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> Hello!
> 
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 02:56:40AM -0500, Azusa Taroura wrote:
> 
> > I’m trying to optimize mail-proxy. 
> > My performance test is 1 client sends many request to 1 nginx
> server.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Low cpu usage, but the performance result is not good.
> > Do yoy know how to take full advantage of nginx?
> 
> It is not clear what do you mean by "request", as there are no 
> requests in SMTP, and what do you mean by "performance result".
> 
> In general, there is no need to optimize anything in nginx mail 
> proxy except very basic things like worker_connections and 
> ssl_session_cache if you use SSL.  Most critical parts from 
> performance point of view are your auth_http backend and your SMTP 
> backend.
> 
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