Sun E3500 with 6 CPU, Solaris 8, vxfs (1 terrabyte of disk space, and around 1.2 Million Users and around 27 million mails lying on the server). The reason I wanted to try postfix was because it
a few questions -
1. were you doing async logging or sync logging when you tested with syslog. plus did you try splitting off IO intensive stuff like imapd, writing to maildirs etc to other machines (using network storage appliances)?
2. could you try smtp-source / smtp-sink on the same setup so that we can just test raw performance?
did not unbundle mails (unlike qmail). I expected this would give me a big performance increase over qmail because quite a lot
That is surprising - how were your postfix and qmail queues ordered? Given that qmail has 3 queue files whereas postfix has just one I'd expect some rather different results.
srs
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