From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 20 13:53:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9E1416A41F for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:53:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from schultz@sgi.com) Received: from omx1.americas.sgi.com (omx1-ext.sgi.com [192.48.179.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D68343D48 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:53:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from schultz@sgi.com) Received: from ledzep.americas.sgi.com (ledzep.americas.sgi.com [198.149.16.14]) by omx1.americas.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.9/linux-outbound_gateway-1.1) with ESMTP id j8KDrSxT020913 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:53:29 -0500 Received: from tdream.americas.sgi.com (tdream.americas.sgi.com [137.38.89.89]) by ledzep.americas.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.10/SGI_generic_relay-1.2) with ESMTP id j8KDrSsM21987010 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:53:28 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:53:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Randy Schultz X-X-Sender: schultz@tdream.americas.sgi.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <43300A91.6080303@mac.com> Message-ID: References: <20050920103202.82870.qmail@web34606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <43300A91.6080303@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: Performance of mailserevr in FreeBSD 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:53:31 -0000 On Tue, 19 Sep 2005, Chuck Swiger spaketh thusly: -}Deepak Naidu wrote: -}> I wanted to know whether FreeBSD can make a perfect -}> mailserver compared to mailservers on linux. I am in -}> process of porting them, but needed some statistical -}> info regarding its performance compared with other os. -} -}FreeBSD makes a fine mailserver. It certainly does. A few months ago I did some testing and found that freebsd 5.4 with softupdates enabled was able to process IIRC ~300% more email than fedora core 4. In fact sendmail on fbsd 5.4 handled nearly as much email as postfix on fc4 while postfix on fbsd 5.4 was smokin' the wire. I still have the hard data around somewhere if you think it'll be useful to you. -- Randy (schultz@sgi.com) 715-726-2832 email bodhisattva <*> "There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed."