On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Jan Patorra wrote:

> hi davide/list,
>
>
> > I use outlook to get messages from LOCALHOST and find it is slow (about 15
> seconds) when the message has a big >attachment,e.g 1M bytes.
>
> hm, unfortunately this is a point i must agree to, i use pegasus on the
> windows boxes and fetchmail and noticed that the
> time until a big testmail is fetched nearly quadruples in comparison to
> qmail - as this is no reason for me to discard xmail
> it may be worth to be looked after - at least imo....

I bet. On the same hardware ( dual PIII 1GHz 256Mb RAM ) :

Windows 2k:     39000 messages/hour
Linux 2.4.12:   115000 messages/hour

using statis relaying.
Windows performance SUCKS compared to Linux.
Just take a look here:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-rt6/
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-rt4/




- Davide



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