From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 20 9:28:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9288937B72E for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:28:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by mail.enteract.com (8.11.1/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2KHSdG51179; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:28:43 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:28:38 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt X-Sender: dscheidt@shell-2.enteract.com To: "Michael C . Wu" Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server In-Reply-To: <20010320111144.A51924@peorth.iteration.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Michael C . Wu wrote: : :This box is rather a FreeBSD advocacate itself, as you will see why. Indeed. : :It runs an self-wrote PERL SMTP daemon. (Sendmail and Postfix croaks) How do sendmail and postfix croak? How much mail are you transporting? If you really can't use one of them, why write a replacement in perl? : :* What is possibly the bottleneck that we have for load 30.0? : (since we are not CPU-bound nor memory bound) You're probably blocked on disk IO. David -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message