Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 13:01:12 -0500 From: Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: kernel optimizations for an smp mail server... Message-ID: <3A96A568.66EBF9FE@magpage.com>
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Hey all, After using FreeBSD for a few customers colo servers and hearing them comment on how much they liked it's stability, performance, etc. I've finally been able to convince the powers that be that FreeBSD will make a better platform for our mail server. We got a dual PIII box with a gig of RAM and a RAID 5 array from Penguin Computing and the first thing we did was install FreeBSD(yay!) Now, I've set up plenty of workstations, a few firewalls and web servers, but never an mail server. We have a fairly small user base, only about 10,000 users. Can anyone suggest some kernal and/or system optimizations I should make? I'm sure the main one would be maxusers, but other than kern.maxproc I'm not sure what else that affects. Would MAXUSERS = 256 be appropriate? Anything else I need to tweak? Thanks. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 Systems Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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