From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 10 14:50:27 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 747D525C for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:50:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gofp-freebsd-performance@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3494B12BB for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:50:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uwvir-0001kT-6y for freebsd-performance@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:50:25 +0200 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:50:25 +0200 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:50:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Subject: Re: Outgoing mail server performance Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:50:14 +0200 Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <51D44EF6.8000307@wallago.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="----enig2RGDJWKKIKJHUPXTAUIAH" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130322 Thunderbird/17.0.4 In-Reply-To: <51D44EF6.8000307@wallago.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:50:27 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) ------enig2RGDJWKKIKJHUPXTAUIAH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 seve= rs. > 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. ------enig2RGDJWKKIKJHUPXTAUIAH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----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----- ------enig2RGDJWKKIKJHUPXTAUIAH--