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Date:      Thu, 16 May 2002 23:09:02 +0100
From:      Hiten Pandya <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Omar Thameen <omar@clifford.inch.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tuning a CPU bound server
Message-ID:  <20020516230902.A398@hpdi.ath.cx>

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--- Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> wrote:
> The only real problem that I know of with postfix is that it still
> suffers from select(2) collisions (FreeBSD kernel problem) when it tries
> to shut down a bunch of idle smtp senders.  That can cause transient load
> average spikes - this can be a bit alarming but doesn't actually affect 
> things very much.

Just wondering, are these the kind of problems which can be solved by
using the kqueue(2) mechanism, or am I talking nuts again?

Regards.

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