On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:54:33PM +0200, Felix von Leitner allegedly wrote:
> I recently did a few updates to my diet libc
> (http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/) and it can now compile and link qmail.
> Since the diet libc can also compile and link openssl, the STARTTLS
> patch also works.
>
> What's the difference, you ask? This ps listing is on a box with qmail
> dynamically linked against the glibc:
>
> USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> qmaill 29527 0.0 0.1 1228 224 ? S N Mar 12 0:16 splogger qmail
> qmailq 29543 0.0 0.0 1208 104 ? S N Mar 12 0:03 qmail-clean
> qmailr 29529 0.0 0.1 1216 176 ? S N Mar 12 0:00 qmail-rspawn
> qmails 29521 0.0 0.1 1260 172 ? S N Mar 12 0:22 qmail-send
> root 29528 0.0 0.0 1216 80 ? S N Mar 12 0:08 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/
> Please note the drastically reduced memory requirements. As you can
> see, the process are running for many days on the first box, so unused
> memory is already swapped out. Not so on the second box.
>
>
> Why is this significant? Because it allows a much larger concurrency on
> the same hardware. More POP3 users, more concurrent local and remote
> deliveries, more incoming SMTP connections.
Er, what's the chance of have a ps which compares qmail-popd,
qmail-smtp and qmail-remote then? Kinda relevant doncha think?
Regards.
