On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 09:13:26AM -0700, Michael Anderson wrote:
> SMTP is VERY slow responding to client requests. It sits there for about 60
> seconds before the server seems to take hold, the e-mail (even a 20K one)
> shoots out like a rocket. I'm using vpopmail and single user id with this
> system. Anyone know what the deal could be? (BTW, the sendmail that qmail
> replaces, which is running on a different machine, does the exact same thing)
> The sendmail system is a 6.1 Mandrake, and the Qmail unit is 7.0 Mandrake.
> Both have had the X-Windows ripped out. SMTP seems to be the only service
> affected here. I have concurrent connections for Qmail set to 40 (not seeing
> even 10 of these guys...) so I'm not sure what the problem is. I need to get
> this thing figured out before everyone switches to the new unit on Monday, if
> possible.
This is almost certainly a DNS or ident lookup problem. Try running tcpserver,
if you're using tcpserver, with -R and -H and maybe even -l0 (that's el-zero).
If you're not using tcpserver, use tcpserver.
Chris
