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Date:      Thu, 26 Aug 1999 18:09:25 -0500
From:      "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx>
To:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net>
Subject:   RE: Increasing Sendmail Performance?
Message-ID:  <02be01bef018$0a76ed00$d4630a0a@megared.net.mx>
References:  <3.0.5.32.19990826124859.007cfe90@midwest.net>

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Hi,

    Well I have a load of 60,000 e-mails processed each day with sendmail
8.9.3, also I have procmail running, imap-uw-4.5 which the pop3 server its
accesed 200,000 times at day running from inetd, mrtg monitoring 25 Routers,
and BigBrother monitoring 10 servers & 30 diferent devices, also I have bind
8.2 , quotas enabled and Apache 1.3.6 running in the same machine(its not
the main web server, but it certanly serves some pages), and I havent had
any problem with it.

Server Compaq Proliant 800, 1 CPU PPro 200 Mhz. 256K cache, 2 9GB SCSI II
H.D, 1 ncr 53c875 fast20 wide scsi card, and 256 MB of RAM, 512MB for Swap
(it has only used 744KB in 16 Days of Uptime, GREAT OS isnt it!!!)

Top screen:

last pid:  1164;  load averages:  0.24,  0.72,  0.88   up 16+05:03:08
18:03:45
87 processes:  1 running, 86 sleeping
CPU states: 12.2% user,  0.0% nice,  8.5% system,  1.9% interrupt, 77.4%
idle
Mem: 55M Active, 132M Inact, 24M Wired, 9956K Cache, 8344K Buf, 29M Free
Swap: 512M Total, 744K Used, 511M Free, 4K In

PID USERNAME  PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
1156 root           32   0  1696K   952K RUN      0:01 17.86%  2.49% top
1159 cesar         2   0  1408K   912K sbwait   0:00  1.03%  0.10% ipop3d
1164 ventana     2   0  1408K   912K sbwait   0:00  2.00%  0.10% ipop3d
316 root            2   0 11648K 10796K select  94:12  0.05%  0.05% named
96028 root        2   0  1604K  1364K sbwait   0:01  0.05%  0.05% sendma
1161 prenata    -2   0  1408K   896K ffsfsn   0:00  0.51%  0.05% ipop3d
152 root             2   0  1104K   676K select  18:46  0.00%  0.00% inetd
109 root             2   0   820K   328K select  11:56  0.00%  0.00% syslog
84201 root         2   0  1512K   996K select   2:08  0.00%  0.00% httpd
51425 root         2   0   792K   360K accept   1:07  0.00%  0.00% bbd
93568 root         2   0  1296K   968K select   0:48  0.00%  0.00% sendma
52453 root         2   0  7088K  4596K select   0:33  0.00%  0.00% perl
1 root              10   0   420K   140K wait     0:27  0.00%  0.00% init
155 root            10   0  1036K   520K nanslp   0:17  0.00%  0.00% cron
51776 root         2   0  1852K  1400K poll     0:11  0.00%  0.00% sendma
49612 root         2   0  1848K  1612K sbwait   0:10  0.00%  0.00% sendma

BTW Im running FreeBSD 3.2 Release.

If you need some more data, just let me know.

The only thing I have to say its that Sendmail isnt as weak as some people
think it is.

Ales

You Must Never Loose Your Faith in You!!!
-Ales-


----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan E. Lyons <parrothd@midwest.net>
To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 12:48 PM
Subject: Increasing Sendmail Performance?


> Hi,
> Is there an FAQ/site that will provide details in increasing the
> performance of sendmail? Like kernel parameters, maxusers? Mem? Sendmail
> options? We have a huge mass mailing to our customers and I'd like to be
> sure the machine can handle the load.
> Also is it possible to "simulate" the type of load the machine can handle?
> Something along the lines of directing all outout to /dev/null, but still
> have the machine do DNS lookups and then dump the messages? I want to do a
> few dry runs before attempting to send +10,000 e-mails.. :). Or should I
be
> looking at other SMTP servers??
>
>
> Thanks!!!
>
>
>
> Jonathan E. Lyons
> parrothd@midwest.net Nucleus Consulting
> ICQ # 14226912 www.nucleusconsulting.com
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