From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 21 23:06:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA24198 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 23:06:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA24135 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 23:06:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA22170; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 09:06:01 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 09:06:01 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: Jim Bryant cc: Michael Dillon , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LSMTP and Unix (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199806220407.XAA29964@unix.tfs.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 Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Jim Bryant wrote: > In reply: > > >Are there any plans to port LSMTP to UNIX? ... The performance > > >of LSMTP and a UNIX operating system combined would be excellent! > > > > LSMTP is being ported to Solaris (SPARC only), AIX and Digital unix. We > > may add other systems when we are done with these three, but unlike > > since when did benchmarks not include source code? > > all of the comparisons are to be considered fudged until source code > for the benchmark is released. > 1) The combination of given configurations and numbers is bogus. They don't give the amount of memory. It could very well be that the perfomance really depends on the size of buffer cache. 2) Another very strong possibility is that they do something silly and depend heavily on read-ahead. 3) There is not even any mention what their benchmark measures. Sander > > "Always call their bluff!!" > Jim's first law of benchmarks > > jim > -- > All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, > think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or > radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Inet: jbryant@tfs.net AX.25: kc5vdj@wv0t.#neks.ks.usa.noam grid: EM28pw > voice: KC5VDJ - 6 & 2 Meters AM/FM/SSB, 70cm FM. http://www.tfs.net/~jbryant > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > HF/6M/2M: IC-706-MkII, 2M: HTX-212, 2M: HTX-202, 70cm: HTX-404, Packet: KPC-3+ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message