Re: invite for qmail bullet points

[George Georgalis <georgw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:41:35PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
>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.

Thanks for the tip, I've not experienced resource problems but I'll keep
this in mind.

 ps -axo etime,vsize,pid,user,args --sort vsize

// George


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