Re: [exim] Performance considerations

Top Page
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Richard Welty
Date:  
To: Eximers
Subject: Re: [exim] Performance considerations
On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 20:57:49 -0400 Maykel Moya <maykel.moya@???> wrote:

> I'm trying to desing a mail handling architecture for an ISP (about 20K
> users, soon scaling to 40K), the candidates: exim and postfix. The
> 'claimed drawback' of exim by other members of the team is to be memory
> hungry by being monolithic.


> I'd like to read some (serious) documentation about what features have
> exim to reduce/optimize memory compsuntion due to its condition of being
> monolithic.


umm, why don't you look into how shared memory is implemented
on modern un*x/linux/bsd systems before you assume that "monolithic"
== "bad".

richard
-- 
Richard Welty                                         rwelty@???
Averill Park Networking                                         518-573-7592
    Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security