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forwarded comment from comp.mail.sendmail on zmailer vs sendmail
Egad! In your copious free time, Matti, care to put zmailer through gprof ;-)
Mark, not a postmaster anymore...
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> Subject: Kudos to Eric, Sendmail beats Zmailer in performance.
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> My hat is off to Eric Allman. Recently we switched our mail hub machine
> from Zmailer to Sendmail 8.6.9. With Zmailer the machine was running at
> capacity, in constant I/O wait, and couldn't process the mail as fast as it
> came in. The best Zmailer could do was around 4,500 messages an hour. With
> Sendmail 8.6.9 the machine is only running at around 1/3 to 1/2 capacity
> processing 6,000 messages an hour. The machine in question is a Sun Sparc
> 10 model 51 running SunOS 4.1.3. The difference is incredible!!!!
> Jim
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