Re: Sarge SMTP Performance

[Timo Veith <tv@rz-zw.fh-kl.de>]

Lars Roland wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I just replaced my company anti-virus/anti-spam mail gateway from a
> Redhat 7.3 with kernel 2.4.20-24.7smp to Debian Sarge with kernel
> 2.6.8.1-i686-SMP. I
> had hoped that this transition would lead to better performance (new
> version of Perl, better drivers in the kernel and so on) but the performance has
> instead drooped about 30%.
> 
> Here is my setup.
> 
> Hardware:
> IBM 335 with dual 2.4 Ghz Xeon, 1GB Ram and 1 10.000RPM SCSI disk.
> 
> 
> Software:
> 
> Minimal Debian Sarge (that is I have turned all unnecessary services off).
> Kernel 2.6.8.1-SMP.
> Reiserfs on all partitions (except /boot).
> Qmail MTA configured with 70 incoming connections.
> ClamAV running as a daemon.
> 10 Spamassassin daemons (spamd)
> Qmail-scanner.
> ...

Hi Lars,

have you installed the optimized libc6 package?

libc6-i686 - GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i686 optimized]

I don't know if it will give you any extra speed but maybe it is worth a
try.


Regards,

Timo