Hello
I'm using Solaris 7 E220/420 systems. I didn't say that my system can't
fork. I just said that it wastes a lot with all this forks. I have a high
volume server and I need to send over 1 million mails in few hours. So I'm
trying to find the best way to achieve this.
I've already built a qmail with 15 qmail-queues to have the best rate.
Regards
Frip'
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Haar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: multi-thread
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 01:07:42AM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 05:45:43PM +0100, Jacques <Frip'> WERNERT wrote:
> > > ok, on my Solaris, the qmail distribution is "forking" almost 10 to 20
> > > processes per second.
> > >
> > > This cost a lot in system ressources and system calls
> >
> > Are you kidding? What kind of hardware are you using? On my Celeron
> > PC, I can fork and exec 200 shared processes per second, and almost 300
> > staticly-linked processes per second.
>
> Not all Unices are created equal...
>
> Linux is extremely good at forking (in fact so good that it's threads
> implementation is a special-case fork), whereas others are better at
threads.
>
> If you look at where Apache is going (OS-specific optimizations to squeeze
> the best out of each platform), it would certainly make sense to do a
> threads version for some of the slower Unices...
>
>
> ...or simpler yet - stop using them... :-)
>
>
> --
> Cheers
>
> Jason Haar
>
> Unix/Special Projects, Trimble NZ
> Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
>
