Sandy Drobic wrote:
Sloan wrote:
Sandy Drobic wrote:
Sloan wrote:
Well, from memory (this was several years ago) we had 2 identical linux test machines, rather modest, hp desktop class hardware as I remember. One was running sendmail, the other postfix, default configs. We fed them both with a mail spool of a few thousand messages and the difference was significant. The postfix box finished processing and delivering the messages in a few minutes. At this point, the sendmail box was thrashing, with a load average around 40. It finally finished about half an hour later.
That one test settled the postfix-vs-sendmail debate for me.
I assume that you configured both systems with reasonable defaults?
Actually that would be the linux vendor - IOW it was straight, "out of the box" default configs.
Bleah, Suse configures Postfix with two smtpd processes as default. It's a nullclient, and the limits are set accordingly. (^-^)
Are you sure? The postfix config on my 10.2 workstation doesn't seem to indicate such a limit, and I don't recall changing anything. In any case, the max number of smtp processes is easy to change. BTW the test boxes were redhat or fedora IIRC - we used to be a redhat shop back in the day, and redhat had a handy "config-mta" utility to switch among installed MTAs. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org