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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Tuning
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Yeah I read the tuning manpage,

Not enough, need more :)

Regards,
PD

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: "Pedram M" <pmessri@sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 2:46 AM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Tuning


> 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.
>