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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Pedram M <pmessri@sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Tuning
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On 2005-04-03 03:12, Pedram M <pmessri@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>Giorgos Keramidas [keramida@ceid.upatras.gr] wrote:
>>On 2005-04-02 22:36, Pedram M <pmessri@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> Anyone can give me references or suggestions on what to do tune
>>> FreeBSD for a heavily loaded mail server?
>>>
>>> Any suggestions for kernel tuning, sysctl tuning, network tuning,
>>> etc.. will be helpful
>>
>> A good starting point would probably be the tuning(7) manpage.
>>
>> For performance tweaks specific to your particular MTA, a Google search
>> is probably the best you can do.  Most of the time, the changes you can
>> do to improve performance for MTAs apply (more or less) to all UNIX systems.
>
> Yeah I read the tuning manpage,
> Not enough, need more :)

Then you will have to tell us more about the MTA you are using, the
current setup and the expected load (in number of messages per day,
hour, the number of users it supports, etc.)