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From: Peter Mutsaers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Peter Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, May 15, 1998 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box
Hotmail also uses FreeBSD (even after Microsoft bought
Mike,
Sorry. There is no intent to ignore the procedures. It would appear
the lab person has not ordered them in a timely manner. I'm taking
care of it.
Bill
Quoting Chuck Carson:
Linux can out perform NT maybe, but Solaris? That is like
comparing a GEO Metro to a Mercedes Benz
"Tony" == Tony Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Another point to consider is that you should install multiple
boxen.
Taking James' comments a step further - the extra boxes will be paid
for by not having to buy Microsoft Exchange! If you look at the
business case, comparing
On 16 May 1998 05:14:23 -, Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
ES "Chuck Carson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only reason linux is so popular is it is free and most of the
software is free. Solaris has a far more robust kernel
ES I beg to differ. Solaris has a huge
I wrote:
I beg to differ. Solaris has a huge bloated inefficient pig
of a kernel as compared to Linux. They do wacky things like
Peter Mutsaers [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied:
We just bought some SUN Ultra's with Solaris 2.6. The Ultra's have
only 64MB of RAM, but still I find them very
On 17 May 1998, Peter Mutsaers wrote:
We just bought some SUN Ultra's with Solaris 2.6. The Ultra's have
only 64MB of RAM, but still I find them very efficient.
It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that Solaris requires 128MB to do
anything useful, it runs very nicely in 64MB, maybe 32MB if
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Peter Chen wrote:
I can't find a qmail SRPM or RPM package. Moreover, since I don't have much
There isn't any. The qmail author permits free use of the program, but
won't allow redistribution of it. So you have to get it from him. (Well,
now he allows redistribution,
"Peter Chen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't find a qmail SRPM or RPM package. Moreover, since I don't have much
experience with qmail, I don't want to lose my job and Linux's reputation
as well. But I might switch to qmail after the mail server is up and
running.
Hmmm... I couldn't ever
On 16 May 1998, Peter Mutsaers wrote:
Hmm, I cannot speak of all variants of hardware, but on my computer
(64MB RAM, P200, SCSI NCR 815) there's a significant difference in
favour of FreeBSD w.r.t. performance, especially when doing some
memory intensive things at the same time.
Indeed.
Another point to consider is that you should install multiple
boxen.
Taking James' comments a step further - the extra boxes will be
paid for by not having to buy Microsoft Exchange! If you look
at the business case, comparing functionality, extra resilience
and so on, I think you'll find
The Linux vs. Solaris on UltraSparc benchmark comparisions are lying
around on the web somewhere. A semi-inteligent search on yahoo, etc.
should find it.
ftp://vger.rutgers.edu/pub/linux/Sparc/ultrapenguin-1.0/HTML/lmbench.txt
--
PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING
Bob Drzyzgula wrote:
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 08:53:36PM -0400, Steve Glines wrote:
Actually Linux or free BDS can easely handle over 1 pop3 users. We
use 2 incomming systems for anti-spam etc, 2 hosts for pop mail
reading/www etc, and 2 outgoing systems to service 15000 users. Our
Peter Chen wrote:
Dear Steve
Sorry, just now I asked Bob instead of you the following questions:
What are you using for SMTP? qmail or sendmail or something?
Sendmail 8.8
What are you using for POP3? qpopper or what?
qpopper
And do you hash your /var/spool/mail directory? Something
Can you just increase NR_TASKS in linux/include/tasks.h and nothing else?
Somebody said you can increase file-max and inode-max in /proc/sys/kernel
to 8192, but never mentioned about modifying the kernel source and
recompiling. Is this possible?
Regards
Peter
At 01:20 PM 5/15/98 +0100, Chris
On 16 May 1998, Peter Mutsaers wrote:
No, but you'd better use FreeBSD for such a task. While Linux may be
nicer for a personal workstation, as a serious server FreeBSD offers
more performance and stability.
This is no longer true. Hasn't been true for two years. Both FreeBSD and
Linux are
Peter,
I think most of your questions have been covered but I'll give you my 2
cents from experience. I run a mail server for an isp w/ over 4k mail
spools. One thing that helped us out that both cucipop (for sure) and
qpopper (so I'm told) will let you do is to hash /var/spool/mail so as
not
, 1998 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box
On Fri, 15 May 1998 19:01:08 -0400 (EDT), William T Wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
WTW On 16 May 1998, Peter Mutsaers wrote:
No, but you'd better use FreeBSD for such a task. While Linux
may be nicer
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Chuck Carson wrote:
Linux can out perform NT maybe, but Solaris? That is like
comparing a GEO Metro to a Mercedes Benz IMHO.
It's more like comparing a Camaro to a Mercedes. One of them might be
nice and comfy, but the other is just as fast and soups up a lot easier.
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Peter Chen wrote:
Dear All
Currently our ISP's Solaris server is hosting all the 4000+ email accounts
for our staff and clients. Recently the management wants to move all the
email accounts in-house for better control and confidentiality, but doesn't
want to pay a
On Fri, 15 May 1998 15:55:41 +0800, Peter Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
PC Currently our ISP's Solaris server is hosting all the 4000+
PC email accounts for our staff and clients. Recently the
PC management wants to move all the email accounts in-house for
PC better control and
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 08:53:36PM -0400, Steve Glines wrote:
Actually Linux or free BDS can easely handle over 1 pop3 users. We
use 2 incomming systems for anti-spam etc, 2 hosts for pop mail
reading/www etc, and 2 outgoing systems to service 15000 users. Our
systems don't breath very
Dear Bob
What are you using for SMTP? qmail or sendmail or something?
What are you using for POP3? qpopper or what?
And do you hash your /var/spool/mail directory? Something like
/var/spool/mail/f/o/foo mailbox for foo?
Regards
Peter
At 09:06 PM 5/15/98 -0400, Bob Drzyzgula wrote:
On Fri, May
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