On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:12:57AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> > If you can do this on your own mail server, so that you won't risk
> > making your system administrator very very angry, you can create such
> > a mailbox with this script:
>
> Yeah, uh... don't run that script. Sorry! You'll bomb your system.
If you have somewhat old hardware, you can run the script if you add a
sleep 1 in the loop. If it's really old and slow, you might need to
do more like sleep 2 or sleep 5...
If your hardware is new and fast (especially fast disk), you can
probably do about 10 messages a second. If you're on a beefy server
class machine, you can probably do a lot more than that.
At 1 message/second it will take you about 14 hours to generate a
mailbox with 50,000 messages using this script.
to do more than that, add this inside the loop:
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# number of messages to do per second
rate=10
foo=`expr $i % $rate`
if [ $foo -eq 0 ]; then
sleep 1
fi
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The above sets the rate of messages to 10/s. That is, the script will
sleep for 1 second after submitting 10 messages. At that rate, it
will only take about an hour and a half to generate 50,000 messages.
My sincere apologies to anyone who may have run the original script I
posted and hosed their system.
--
Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02
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