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Date:      Fri, 17 May 2002 12:31:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Hiten Pandya <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Omar Thameen <omar@clifford.inch.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: tuning a CPU bound server
Message-ID:  <20020517123114.G6300-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020516230902.A398@hpdi.ath.cx>

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On Thu, 16 May 2002, Hiten Pandya wrote:

> --- Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> wrote:
> > The only real problem that I know of with postfix is that it still
> > suffers from select(2) collisions (FreeBSD kernel problem) when it tries
> > to shut down a bunch of idle smtp senders.  That can cause transient load
> > average spikes - this can be a bit alarming but doesn't actually affect
> > things very much.
>
> Just wondering, are these the kind of problems which can be solved by
> using the kqueue(2) mechanism, or am I talking nuts again?

You are welcome to rewrite qmail to use kqueue if you wish :)

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org


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