From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 17 22:27:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 517A616A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:27:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sakura.ninth-nine.com (sakura.ninth-nine.com [219.127.74.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF4D343D1D for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:27:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nork@ninth-nine.com) Received: from melfina.ninth-nine.com ([IPv6:2002:d312:f91e::1]) (authenticated bits=0) by sakura.ninth-nine.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/NinthNine) with ESMTP id i1I6RUXh040119 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:27:31 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from nork@ninth-nine.com) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:27:31 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <200402180627.i1I6RUXh040119@sakura.ninth-nine.com> From: Norikatsu Shigemura To: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <6.0.3.0.0.20040217200510.1052ca50@209.112.4.2> References: <6.0.3.0.0.20040217200510.1052ca50@209.112.4.2> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tuning for large outbound smtp queues X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 06:27:33 -0000 On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:15:04 -0500 Mike Tancsa wrote: > where there are 60 q directories I havent really tuned sendmail nor the > OS. However, as the volume grows, the box becomes quite sluggish. Is it > just a matter of throwing more hardware at the issue, or can I better tweak > RELENG_4 and sendmail to deal with massive (80,000+) queues ? Allocating > more memory to caching the filesystem for example ? Humm... Try to set following setting. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - define(`confMAX_QUEUE_RUN_SIZE', `1')dnl - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 is not reasonable, so please tune this value.