Van Liedekerke Franky wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to ask if anybody uses qmail in a large scale environment
> running on linux (redhat), because I'm interested in how people configured
> their system (number of filedescriptors, max childs per process, max running
> processes,...)
> Could those who use it please mail me their findings and settings?
>
> Tx a lot for boosting linux!
>
> Franky
Well
increase the file inodes and descriptors
Have lots of ram (use a ram disk)
read LWQ (Life With Qmail) - three times ...
Tweak reddrat - remove inetd, {a.n.other services}, adjust /etc/initab
to only start a few consoles
Get some fast disks ....
You could go further and change some underlying Linux things like tcp
window options, and swap/VM stuff - but this is a very specialist area
that comprimised my KISS principle.
Overall RedDrat is quite good overall (IMHO) once you remove all
necessary stuff (both RPMS and services).
Greg
