November 2010
1 post
Using matplotlib to investigate an SMTP slowdown
At work, I’m on the team that ensures emails get sent out on time. Most of the time our email traffic is quite low, but we’ve got a few mass newsletters that go to many, many more recipients (our sending rate jumps about 3 orders of magnitude during these times). We log timing info every 100 messages and recently noticed that the overall sending throughput across our sending processes...