<quote who="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> > If I am going it install a high load email server, every little speed > optimisation counts.
This is false. Hardware and operating systems are cheap. Maintenance is expensive. If you're going to install a high load email, every little *maintenance* optimisation helps, and in that realm, Gentoo is just about the worst possible choice you could make (the worst would be LFS homebrew shenanigans, but I wouldn't expect anyone setting up a production mail server to be quite that insane). If you need to handle more load, throw another cpu, more ram or another box at the problem. Using a built-from-source distribution and microscopic code level optimisations - which will have a nanoscopic effect on a relatively large-grain non-computing intensive task such as mail serving - is not a credible solution. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ "Instead you're doing circle jerks with the Care Bears of Censorship." - Siduri on Slashdot -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
