Sloan wrote: > 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.
Bleah, Suse configures Postfix with two smtpd processes as default. It's a nullclient, and the limits are set accordingly. (^-^) -- Sandy List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
