From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 25 17:19: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dax.web3000.com (worf.web3000.com [206.253.212.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FB5C15393 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:18:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from JeffreyC@WEB3000.COM) Received: by DAX with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:12:26 -0700 Message-ID: From: Jeffrey Chen To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Extra Sendmail Processes? Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:12:23 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message