Sandy Drobic wrote: > Sloan wrote: > >> Well, from memory (this was several years ago) we had 2 identical linux >> test machines, rather modest, hp desktop class hardware as I remember. >> One was running sendmail, the other postfix, default configs. We fed >> them both with a mail spool of a few thousand messages and the >> difference was significant. The postfix box finished processing and >> delivering the messages in a few minutes. At this point, the sendmail >> box was thrashing, with a load average around 40. It finally finished >> about half an hour later. >> >> That one test settled the postfix-vs-sendmail debate for me. >> > > I assume that you configured both systems with reasonable defaults? > Actually that would be the linux vendor - IOW it was straight, "out of the box" default configs.
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