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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Pedram M <pmessri@sbcglobal.net>
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On 2005-04-02 22:36, Pedram M <pmessri@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Anyone can give me references or suggestions on what to do tune
> FreeBSD for a heavily loaded mail server?
>
> Any suggestions for kernel tuning, sysctl tuning, network tuning,
> etc.. will be helpful

A good starting point would probably be the tuning(7) manpage.

For performance tweaks specific to your particular MTA, a Google search
is probably the best you can do.  Most of the time, the changes you can
do to improve performance for MTAs apply (more or less) to all UNIX systems.