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Subject: Re: Problems benchmarking postfix...
From: furio ercolessi (furiospin.it)
Date: Fri Jun 02 2000 - 16:56:51 CDT

On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 06:08:01PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'm using the standard command:
>
> /usr/bin/time ./smtp-source -m1000 -s20 -l15360 -c
> -tnulllocalhost localhost
>
> However, I get errors with qmgr saying "fatal: socket: No buffer
> space available", smtpd is unable to contact private/cleanup, and
> qmgr keeps dying with an exit status of 1.
>
> I'm stumped.
>
>
> The machine is FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE, on a Dell 2450/600 (one
> processor, 256MB RAM, 1.25GB swap), with an IBM DMVS18M 18GB/10kRPM
> Ultra160 drive for the system disk, and four more identical drives
> (on two separate channels of an Adaptec AIC-7899 Ultra160
> controller).

This exact command runs fine on FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE (being new
to FreeBSD, this is what I chose because you wrote somewhere that
you feel more comfortable with it :-) on an old, vanilla PC
(Pentium 133, 128MB RAM, Adaptec 2940A, Seagate ST34520N).
Time was 1'20" using SoftUpdates (12.5 msgs/sec).
Kernel has maxusers=256, and I have not fiddled with anything else.

> Interestingly, using softupdates doesn't seem to make much of a
> difference,

Yes, I noticed that. With Postmark is quite different..

furio ercolessi
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