[Techtalk] Performance metrics for email processing

[Devdas Bhagat]

On 13/07/04 16:41 -0400, Terri Oda wrote:
> I'm going to be running performance tests on some email filters.
> 
> A simple "filter A took X minutes, filter B took Y minutes... for Z 
> messages." is all I have in mind at the moment, but what other metrics 
> are useful when it comes to email processing?  Has anyone seen 
> performance test suites they like?  Any potential pitfalls I should 
> know about?  Any good papers that detail ways to do this?
> 
> The tests are going to be done on a debian testing machine, either 
> using exim as the mail filter or piping the test set of emails through 
> the filters directly to limit other factors.

Any further updates on this?

Devdas Bhagat