Re: invite for qmail bullet points

[Dave Sill <de5@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George Georgalis <georgw@galis.org> wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:31:58PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
>
>>  o  Performance - small modules allow high parallelism, simple design
>>     minimizes overhead while ensuring reliability. 
>
>I'm really not sure what to say when it comes to comparing postfix
>speed to qmail -- can you elaborate on the use of parallelism for
>performance?  Are you suggesting multiple computers can deliver to NFS
>maildirs or using concurrent processes on a single host?

I'm talking about concurrent processes. For example, on one of my
Linux systems, qmail-remote processes are 387 KB--smaller than "sleep"
processes, which are 486 KB. That means that hundreds of these
processes can be run, even on machines with modest physical resources.

-Dave