* Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020516 15:41] 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.

Is there a paper on avoiding this?  I know how Linux does it, but
they seem to need to hammer on the scheduler lock quite a bit as a
workaround.

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