From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 5 16:40:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (ip-208.54.94.63.mobilestar.net [208.54.94.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B391837B440; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 16:39:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.3/8.9.3) id f65N0w800549; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 18:00:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 17:55:38 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Len Conrad Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: helping Wietse help postfix on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010705175538.C455@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010703230504.02f8fe50@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010703230504.02f8fe50@mail.Go2France.com>; from LConrad@Go2France.com on Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:08:57PM +0200 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 3 July 2001 at 23:08:57 +0200, Len Conrad wrote: > I´m trying to gather tuning information for Wietse Venema who says: > > "I'm writing a document that describes how to crank up FreeBSD so > that it can run lots of processes, and so that it can handle lots > of connections. > > Right now, these guidelines vary from sysctl, loader.conf, to > recompiling a kernel. This is confusing." > > Of course, what he means "lots of connections" required by 100´s and > 100´s of smtp and smtpd processes in postfix. What system does Wietse normally use? I've just discovered how very badly Linux handles a large number of processes, and it's possible that Wietse thinks that FreeBSD is as bad. Hundreds of processes are not an issue; ftp.FreeBSD.org used to handle thousands. Before we fix a problem, we should know what it is, and if it even exists. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message