Sandy Drobic wrote: > 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. (^-^) > >
Are you sure? The postfix config on my 10.2 workstation doesn't seem to indicate such a limit, and I don't recall changing anything. In any case, the max number of smtp processes is easy to change. BTW the test boxes were redhat or fedora IIRC - we used to be a redhat shop back in the day, and redhat had a handy "config-mta" utility to switch among installed MTAs. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
