From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 22 08:16:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22E1B16A41F for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:16:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from deepak_nai@yahoo.com) Received: from web34611.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web34611.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.68.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7C0143D48 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:16:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from deepak_nai@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 74776 invoked by uid 60001); 22 Sep 2005 08:16:41 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=v3KkmI0mwgJ0RKsZcdPHSE2fuH+hOYX8/fJD/c1OZbt8bZjel6h7wG5FQSnp9B+QWaJd/4vZkvubb79s4iRc0yPCfgA+Jf0mOyPd0jndY65c+jhWKpvL8Ofbs0NpDf4NqcawdvOwMfS0vIiv/LlEZxXDgLMO8wPOw0vmi3NRYVE= ; Message-ID: <20050922081641.74774.qmail@web34611.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [210.18.143.69] by web34611.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:16:41 BST Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:16:41 +0100 (BST) From: Deepak Naidu To: snacktime , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1f060c4c05092200321619f2aa@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: Performance of mailserevr in FreeBSD 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:16:42 -0000 Thnax to you all... We have done a black box testing and seems FreeBSD is rocking, except when SA is set to yes, Spamassasin(SA)... it just timesout.. It s my look out, might be RAM issue... Thanx for the feedback... Cheers, Deepak Naidu. --- snacktime wrote: > On 9/20/05, Deepak Naidu > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I wanted to know whether FreeBSD can make a > perfect > > mailserver compared to mailservers on linux. I am > in > > process of porting them, but needed some > statistical > > info regarding its performance compared with other > os. > > > > How do you define perfect? Performance? Mail servers > are there own animal, > performance doesn't apply in the same way it does > with a web server for > instance. Honestly, you are asking the wrong > questions. The issues you will > most likely face are tuning issues for large numbers > of processes and files > on disk. The mail server software you use will have > way more impact on your > performance and capacity then the OS will. > > If you want more specific answers you need to be > more specific in your > question. Give some details about what you need to > do, what capacity you > need, and you will probably get some helpful > answers. You just aren't giving > enough information to get anything useful in return > other than 'ya freebsd > will work fine'. > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com