From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 07:22:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 07:22:11 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:9228 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 07:22:10 -0400 Message-ID: <3D6A080B.6010606@namesys.com> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:50:51 +0400 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: J Sloan CC: linux kernel Subject: Re: [OT] sendmail kernel tuning params References: <3D66BA7C.6000503@lexus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org J Sloan wrote: > Hi All, > > We're setting up some new sendmail boxes > which we intend to keep pretty busy, on the > order of millions of messages/mo anyway. > > The systems are dual processor Dell 2450 > w/ perc raid running Red Hat 7.3 - > > Following the best practices from the sendmail > BOF at Linux World, we've installed sendmail > 8.12.5, and have created 16 queues on reiserfs > partitions which are mounted -notail, -noatime. > > Do any sendmail/kernel gurus have words of > wisdom on recommended kernel sysctl params > for such a beast? I mean they look good, but > I'd like to make sure I'm getting the best possible > sendmail performance and not missing anything. > > The sendmail guy at the BOF lost his laptop or > something and didn't have the recommended > params handy - I haven't been able to raise > him since then either. > > Any pointers, or whacks with clue-by-fours are > gladly accepted. > > Best Regards, > > Joe > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > You'll want the data logging patches from Chris (mason@suse.de). Hans