On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 10:34:16AM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote: > On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > > > well, as a trivial example here (with a moderately complex > > config with some perl), > > > > echo QUIT | time exim -bhc 1.2.3.4 > > > > uses about 0.14s user + system time (and about the same > > for exim -bt chris or exim -bP > /dev/null). > > The simplest test would be > > time exim -bV > > That reads the config and does very little else. When I run it on my > workstation I get: > > real 0m0.020s > user 0m0.008s > sys 0m0.004s > > which is an order of magnitude less that your figure! My configuration > is pretty standard.
Comparing the timings for exim and perl -c /etc/mail/exim.pl shows that here at least most of the time (~0.12s) is spent in perl startup. Possibly that's not all that surprising ;-) -- ``Nothing so gives the illusion of intelligence as personal association with large sums of money.'' (John Kenneth Galbraith) -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
