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Date:      Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:12:23 -0700
From:      Jeffrey Chen <JeffreyC@WEB3000.COM>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Extra Sendmail Processes?
Message-ID:  <A37746A5260ED31184B00090276D7BAB293115@DAX>

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Hi,

I am trying to test BSD to send out newsletters for my company.  The FreeBSD
box is basically a forwarder box that takes input from our internal mailer
program and then feeds it to a SMTP mailer.  So basically all it has to do
is to do massive amount of forwarding with sendmail.  What I am discovering
is that it will only open 1 SMTP connection to our SMTP server instead of as
much as possible.  With Linux I get up to 200-300 sendmail processes.  The
sendmail.cf I use for both (Linux and FreeBSD) are identical, and I am
running sendmail  8.9.3.  The FreeBSD is 3.2-Release.

My question is, are there settings with a rc file or a kernel switch which I
can to force it to spawn more sendmail processs with FreeBSD? (I already
recompiled the kernel). I guess this is a performance related question.  I
would really like to get rid of Linux and go with BSD on all our servers,
and getting this to work will defiantely help me win BSD converts.  Any help
would be greatly appreciated! 

-Jeffrey Chen


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