From: Magnus Bäck (magnusdsek.lth.se)
Date: Sat Jan 01 2005 - 13:28:25 CST

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

On Saturday, January 01, 2005 at 19:56 CET,
     Planet X Mail <elitescripts2000yahoo.com> wrote:

> In a default postfix install ( v 2 ) does this 'bloating' use up alot
> of sys resources?

How long is a piece of string?

> Or does the default config/install pretty much make postfix efficient
> on memory and cpu?

Because of the multi-daemon architecture, Postfix is probably not the
best choice if process, memory, and/or file descriptor resources are
very limited. For normal systems, Postfix is no less efficient then any
other MTA. As Wietse points out, a large portion of the added source
code lies in optional modules (verify(8), scache(8), proxymap(8),
anvil(8), ...) that aren't used unless you want them to be. But sure,
the memory footprint of today's Postfix is larger than a five year old
Postfix.

> Bloat was a prob with sendmail are we seeing postfix going down a path
> of inefficencly?

Hardly.

--
Magnus Bäck
magnusdsek.lth.se

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]