Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:50:14 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Outgoing mail server performance Message-ID: <krjsb0$lc$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <51D44EF6.8000307@wallago.co.uk> References: <51D44EF6.8000307@wallago.co.uk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 03/07/2013 18:19, TJ wrote: > Hi Guys, > i am looking for some advise to help get the best out of one of my severs. > It is a Dell PowerEdge R420,32GB,2x8c CPU and igb nics. > Its primary purpose is to send outgoing mail it can send up to 3 millon > emails a day and it running exim. > I am relatively new to FreeBSD and would appreciate some pointers on > improving the performance of this server. Well, randomly tweaking things will not help you much. Try running: iostat -x 1 and vmstat 1 for a non-trivial amount of time (>10 seconds) during your peek usage (the times when you think you should be getting more performance) and report their output. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHddKYACgkQ/QjVBj3/HSz7QgCgjYTUX8IHAbf7hQv5dBJCJY/0 iVgAnjjLyXFAkn7F6roGqeVGFCuUQGIv =8/Nu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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