From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 26 16:10:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megared.net.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF3E15EE8 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 16:09:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (pix.megared.net.mx [207.249.162.253]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA08933; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 18:10:18 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <02be01bef018$0a76ed00$d4630a0a@megared.net.mx> From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: , "Jonathan E. Lyons" References: <3.0.5.32.19990826124859.007cfe90@midwest.net> Subject: RE: Increasing Sendmail Performance? Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 18:09:25 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Well I have a load of 60,000 e-mails processed each day with sendmail 8.9.3, also I have procmail running, imap-uw-4.5 which the pop3 server its accesed 200,000 times at day running from inetd, mrtg monitoring 25 Routers, and BigBrother monitoring 10 servers & 30 diferent devices, also I have bind 8.2 , quotas enabled and Apache 1.3.6 running in the same machine(its not the main web server, but it certanly serves some pages), and I havent had any problem with it. Server Compaq Proliant 800, 1 CPU PPro 200 Mhz. 256K cache, 2 9GB SCSI II H.D, 1 ncr 53c875 fast20 wide scsi card, and 256 MB of RAM, 512MB for Swap (it has only used 744KB in 16 Days of Uptime, GREAT OS isnt it!!!) Top screen: last pid: 1164; load averages: 0.24, 0.72, 0.88 up 16+05:03:08 18:03:45 87 processes: 1 running, 86 sleeping CPU states: 12.2% user, 0.0% nice, 8.5% system, 1.9% interrupt, 77.4% idle Mem: 55M Active, 132M Inact, 24M Wired, 9956K Cache, 8344K Buf, 29M Free Swap: 512M Total, 744K Used, 511M Free, 4K In PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 1156 root 32 0 1696K 952K RUN 0:01 17.86% 2.49% top 1159 cesar 2 0 1408K 912K sbwait 0:00 1.03% 0.10% ipop3d 1164 ventana 2 0 1408K 912K sbwait 0:00 2.00% 0.10% ipop3d 316 root 2 0 11648K 10796K select 94:12 0.05% 0.05% named 96028 root 2 0 1604K 1364K sbwait 0:01 0.05% 0.05% sendma 1161 prenata -2 0 1408K 896K ffsfsn 0:00 0.51% 0.05% ipop3d 152 root 2 0 1104K 676K select 18:46 0.00% 0.00% inetd 109 root 2 0 820K 328K select 11:56 0.00% 0.00% syslog 84201 root 2 0 1512K 996K select 2:08 0.00% 0.00% httpd 51425 root 2 0 792K 360K accept 1:07 0.00% 0.00% bbd 93568 root 2 0 1296K 968K select 0:48 0.00% 0.00% sendma 52453 root 2 0 7088K 4596K select 0:33 0.00% 0.00% perl 1 root 10 0 420K 140K wait 0:27 0.00% 0.00% init 155 root 10 0 1036K 520K nanslp 0:17 0.00% 0.00% cron 51776 root 2 0 1852K 1400K poll 0:11 0.00% 0.00% sendma 49612 root 2 0 1848K 1612K sbwait 0:10 0.00% 0.00% sendma BTW Im running FreeBSD 3.2 Release. If you need some more data, just let me know. The only thing I have to say its that Sendmail isnt as weak as some people think it is. Ales You Must Never Loose Your Faith in You!!! -Ales- ----- Original Message ----- From: Jonathan E. Lyons To: Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 12:48 PM Subject: Increasing Sendmail Performance? > Hi, > Is there an FAQ/site that will provide details in increasing the > performance of sendmail? Like kernel parameters, maxusers? Mem? Sendmail > options? We have a huge mass mailing to our customers and I'd like to be > sure the machine can handle the load. > Also is it possible to "simulate" the type of load the machine can handle? > Something along the lines of directing all outout to /dev/null, but still > have the machine do DNS lookups and then dump the messages? I want to do a > few dry runs before attempting to send +10,000 e-mails.. :). Or should I be > looking at other SMTP servers?? > > > Thanks!!! > > > > Jonathan E. Lyons > parrothd@midwest.net Nucleus Consulting > ICQ # 14226912 www.nucleusconsulting.com > Cell # 773-251-1967 A+, MCSE, CCNA, FreeBSD! > Pager # 7732511967@mobile.att.net > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message