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Date:      Thu, 19 Jul 2001 23:26:14 -0700
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "j mckitrick" <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: sysadminmag update
Message-ID:  <000501c110e4$e00e3560$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010720030757.A7504@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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only if your building a mailserver that's going to do more
than 1000 simultaneous sends - and do you really think that
such people are going to pay any attention to what SysAdmin
magazine thinks?

It's pretty easy to get benchmarks to prove anything espically
when you pick ones that are meaningless to 99% of your readers.

Ted Mittelstaedt                                       tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:                           The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:                          http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com


>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of j mckitrick
>Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:08 PM
>To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: sysadminmag update
>
>
>
>So, after all this tweaking, 
>"we found that FreeBSD
>tuned had very similar performance to Linux
>(untuned) when running 1000 or less simultaneous
>sends. Overall, the tuned version of FreeBSD was
>27% faster at sending email than the untuned
>version. FreeBSD mail sending performance peaked
>at 1000 to 1500 simultaneous sends, and then
>steadily declined as simultaneous connections
>increased."
>
>does this matter?
>
>
>jcm
>-- 
>o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o
>| ~~~~~~~~~~~~  Jonathon McKitrick  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
>| "I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself." |
>o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o
>
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