Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 17:33:48 -0700 From: "James A. Peltier" <james@aspert.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Len Conrad" <lconrad@go2france.com> Subject: Re: Performance Tuning Message-ID: <004601bfcb61$73452200$672a35d1@james> References: <4.3.1.0.20000531185231.023f3ca0@mail.go2france.com>
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where can i find information for using FreeBSD in a mail cluster, web cluster, or DNS cluster. It would be nice to have failover for these services as well as firewall/proxy services. - James A. Peltier ----- Original Message ----- From: "Len Conrad" <lconrad@go2france.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 9:58 AM Subject: Re: Performance Tuning > > >I'm going to be building a few (several) FreeBSD servers to use in a large > >mail environment. Anyone have any hints or suggestions on what measures I > >might take to ensure peak performance from these boxes? As far as > >hardware is concerned we're probably looking at a PIII/500-700 > >(Whatever is current and available at the time) and a minimum 1G RAM, > >probably 2 to 4. > > See this commercial vendor's performance numbers, his expensive LSMTP > product, and his sizes of machines: > > http://www.lsoft.com/products/default.asp?item=lsmtp > > And then go do the same for free with FreeBSD and postfix and maybe > softupdates filesystem. > > Real speed comes from parallel machines and real reliablity comes from > redundant machines. So build as many FreeBSD/postfix machines as you need. > > I know one FreeBSD/postfix user in the financial sector that runs 20 > FreeBSD/postfix machines to deliver a 100,000 msgs every morning to list > subscribers to stock market lists. > > Len > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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