> I RedHat 7.2 (Server Installation). I am currentely testing sendmail (Compari > ng the load handling between Linux on Intel and Linux on S390. I am using an > IBM z37 machine with one IFL and I gave my Linux LPar 80Pwt (processor weight > ing on the IFL) > When the sever gets too busy start rejecting messages. Just for outbount mai > l and I also want to test for both Inbound/Outbound. What could be the proble > m here. I will send any further information if it is needed. The following is > what I got from my mail administrator. > > This is the BogoMips rating for the various machines: > > Mainframe: 326.04 BogoMIPS (Mainframe) > Maggie (mail-spool, 500Mhz): 996.14 (Intel) 500meg (processor) > > Higher is better, BogoMIPS should also be generic across platforms.
Don't rely on BogoMIPS for anything, especially predicting which system will do your work faster. Bogo is short for Bogus; that should tell you everything. > > The mainframe is running very high load and is getting behind with > mail. Due to the high load, it starts to block connections which is no > good at all (might need to move it back). At this stage I am only > running outbound mail through the box, which is not really where the > load comes from. The real load comes from inbound mail (300-400 > concurrent connections). I don't think this is going to work, unless you > can get MUCH faster processors. At least in the range of 2Ghz+ as in > Intel architecture. > > Please assist > Moloko > -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. ============================== If you don't like being told you're wrong, be right!
