Performance of mailserevr in FreeBSD 5.4

Deepak Naidu deepak_nai at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 22 01:16:42 PDT 2005


Thnax to you all...  We have done a black box testing
and seems FreeBSD is rocking, except when SA is set to
yes, Spamassasin(SA)... it just timesout.. It s my
look out, might be RAM issue...

Thanx for the feedback...

Cheers,
Deepak Naidu.

--- snacktime <snacktime at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/20/05, Deepak Naidu <deepak_nai at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wanted to know whether FreeBSD can make a
> perfect
> > mailserver compared to mailservers on linux. I am
> in
> > process of porting them, but needed some
> statistical
> > info regarding its performance compared with other
> os.
> >
> 
> How do you define perfect? Performance? Mail servers
> are there own animal,
> performance doesn't apply in the same way it does
> with a web server for
> instance. Honestly, you are asking the wrong
> questions. The issues you will
> most likely face are tuning issues for large numbers
> of processes and files
> on disk. The mail server software you use will have
> way more impact on your
> performance and capacity then the OS will.
> 
> If you want more specific answers you need to be
> more specific in your
> question. Give some details about what you need to
> do, what capacity you
> need, and you will probably get some helpful
> answers. You just aren't giving
> enough information to get anything useful in return
> other than 'ya freebsd
> will work fine'.
> 
> Chris
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