From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jul 19 23:28:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60C3A37B405 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 23:28:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f6K6QE825563; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 23:26:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "j mckitrick" , Subject: RE: sysadminmag update Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 23:26:14 -0700 Message-ID: <000501c110e4$e00e3560$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <20010720030757.A7504@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG only if your building a mailserver that's going to do more than 1000 simultaneous sends - and do you really think that such people are going to pay any attention to what SysAdmin magazine thinks? It's pretty easy to get benchmarks to prove anything espically when you pick ones that are meaningless to 99% of your readers. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of j mckitrick >Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:08 PM >To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: sysadminmag update > > > >So, after all this tweaking, >"we found that FreeBSD >tuned had very similar performance to Linux >(untuned) when running 1000 or less simultaneous >sends. Overall, the tuned version of FreeBSD was >27% faster at sending email than the untuned >version. FreeBSD mail sending performance peaked >at 1000 to 1500 simultaneous sends, and then >steadily declined as simultaneous connections >increased." > >does this matter? > > >jcm >-- >o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o >| ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jonathon McKitrick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | >| "I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself." | >o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message