On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 05:05:13PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Scott Lambert:
> > > OK, before less-informed people start to spread urban legends, I did
> > > all the measurements with the default nsswitch.conf file (see below)
> > > which contains the exact same entries that were making your sys
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 17:05:13 -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Scott Lambert:
> > > OK, before less-informed people start to spread urban legends, I did
> > > all the measurements with the default nsswitch.conf file (see below)
> > > which contains the exact same entries that were making your system
Scott Lambert:
> > OK, before less-informed people start to spread urban legends, I did
> > all the measurements with the default nsswitch.conf file (see below)
> > which contains the exact same entries that were making your system
> > crawl.
> >
> > So, while Postfix is now performing better for y
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 03:00:39PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Dave Brodin:
> > Many thanks to Scott Lambert for what I believe to be the solution
> > to my load problem. It was nsswitch.conf which still had all its
> > default settings when I began this troubleshooting. I had changed
> > all t
On 12/16/2010 3:00 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
Dave Brodin:
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Many thanks to Scott Lambert for what I believe to be the solution to my
load problem. It was nsswitch.conf which still had all its default
settings when I began this troubleshooting. I h
Dave Brodin:
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> Many thanks to Scott Lambert for what I believe to be the solution to my
> load problem. It was nsswitch.conf which still had all its default
> settings when I began this troubleshooting. I had changed all the
> entries from nis
Many thanks to Scott Lambert for what I believe to be the solution to my
load problem. It was nsswitch.conf which still had all its default
settings when I began this troubleshooting. I had changed all the
entries from nis to files when he mentioned it a few days ago. But he
then suggested c
Wietse Venema:
> Victor Duchovni:
> > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 01:37:48PM -0500, Dave Brodin wrote:
> >
> > > I ran the following command:
> > >
> > > time /usr/local/bin/smtp-source -s 10 -l 10120 -m 500 -c \
> > > -f t...@bluemarble.net -t dbro...@bluemarble.net localhost:25
> >
> > OK, this i
Wietse Venema put forth on 12/15/2010 12:48 PM:
> I have never seen smtpd use up significant amounts of CPU, except
> with Stan Hoeppner's extremely large PCRE or CIDR tables.
I do have some pretty large tables, but the high CPU burn is probably
more as much a function of my horribly old and slow
Great. It's very helpful to have some comparison numbers to know what
the performance should be like. I'm going to start by getting that
server on a stable release of FreeBSD rather than a pre-release. Also a
fresh install of postfix with a default configuration just so I can make
sure nothi
Victor Duchovni:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 01:37:48PM -0500, Dave Brodin wrote:
>
> > I ran the following command:
> >
> > time /usr/local/bin/smtp-source -s 10 -l 10120 -m 500 -c \
> > -f t...@bluemarble.net -t dbro...@bluemarble.net localhost:25
>
> OK, this is smtp-source with 10 (modest)
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 01:37:48PM -0500, Dave Brodin wrote:
> I ran the following command:
>
> time /usr/local/bin/smtp-source -s 10 -l 10120 -m 500 -c \
> -f t...@bluemarble.net -t dbro...@bluemarble.net localhost:25
OK, this is smtp-source with 10 (modest) parallel sessions,
10KB (modest
Dave Brodin:
> 84 processes: 13 running, 71 sleeping
> CPU: 1.9% user, 0.0% nice, 98.1% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle
> Mem: 171M Active, 6548M Inact, 842M Wired, 246M Cache, 827M Buf, 104M Free
> Swap: 4096M Total, 60K Used, 4096M Free
>
>PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES
Am 15.12.2010 19:37, schrieb Dave Brodin:
> Thanks to everyone for suggestions about the load issue. I will
> endeavor to provide more specific information. It took a while to move
> everything off of that server so I could do the load testing with
> smtp-source. Let me preface by saying that
Thanks to everyone for suggestions about the load issue. I will
endeavor to provide more specific information. It took a while to move
everything off of that server so I could do the load testing with
smtp-source. Let me preface by saying that my real systems
administrator took another job,
Dave Brodin:
> On 12/9/2010 4:55 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > Wietse Venema put forth on 12/9/2010 2:52 PM:
> >> Dave Brodin:
> >>> Thank you very much for the info. I'm really filling in because our
> >>> main system administrator's last day is tomorrow, unfortunately. I
> >>> guess it's 8.2-PRE
On 12/9/2010 4:55 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Wietse Venema put forth on 12/9/2010 2:52 PM:
Dave Brodin:
Thank you very much for the info. I'm really filling in because our
main system administrator's last day is tomorrow, unfortunately. I
guess it's 8.2-PRERELEASE (not sure how happy I am to fi
Wietse Venema put forth on 12/9/2010 2:52 PM:
> Dave Brodin:
>> Thank you very much for the info. I'm really filling in because our
>> main system administrator's last day is tomorrow, unfortunately. I
>> guess it's 8.2-PRERELEASE (not sure how happy I am to find that out).
>> We did try 2.4.
Dave Brodin:
> Thank you very much for the info. I'm really filling in because our
> main system administrator's last day is tomorrow, unfortunately. I
> guess it's 8.2-PRERELEASE (not sure how happy I am to find that out).
> We did try 2.4.10 and it had the same problem.
I would bet that th
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 15:21:15 -0500 (EST)
Wietse Venema articulated:
> FWIW, FreeBSD is my primary development platform. I thought
> that FreeBSD 8.1 is the latest release.
It is. I believe the 8.2 version is still in either RC1 or RC2 stage.
In any case, it has definitely not been released in its
On 12/9/2010 3:21 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
Dave Brodin:
We are an ISP and have Postfix running on FreeBSD. Currently, we are
using postfix 2.4.10 on FreeBSD 4.7. Both are older versions because
several years ago we tried to upgrade FreeBSD to 6.0 and had some
bizarre results. We just tried th
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 02:59:56PM -0500, Dave Brodin wrote:
> Old server - Dual 2.8 GHz Xeon processors with 4 GB RAM
> New server - Dual 2.8 quad-core processors with 8 GB RAM
>
> Things run fine on old server, but hardware is starting to fail. When we
> start postfix on the new server and eve
Dave Brodin:
> We are an ISP and have Postfix running on FreeBSD. Currently, we are
> using postfix 2.4.10 on FreeBSD 4.7. Both are older versions because
> several years ago we tried to upgrade FreeBSD to 6.0 and had some
> bizarre results. We just tried the same thing last night to a much
We are an ISP and have Postfix running on FreeBSD. Currently, we are
using postfix 2.4.10 on FreeBSD 4.7. Both are older versions because
several years ago we tried to upgrade FreeBSD to 6.0 and had some
bizarre results. We just tried the same thing last night to a much
newer version of Free
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