Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Alan Olsen" <> | | Date | Tue, 3 Nov 1998 15:50:41 -0800 | | Subject | Re: GURU needed: Linux vs. FreeBSD |
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On Nov 3, 4:32pm, Shawn Leas wrote:
> Hotmail uses Linux for Web Serving, but Solaris for mail, though. > They think that Solaris's threading is better and suits sendmail > nicely or something to that effect.
Sendmail tends to be pretty abusive on filehandles. Solaris seems to handle sendmail's Mai Lei file handle routines a wee bit better. (I have seen Linux kernels around 2.0.30 cough blood on large mailing lists by running out of all available file handles. It required a tweak to the kernel to get it to run right. (Doubling ND_OPEN if I remember correctly.) That seems to have been fixed in later kernels.)
For a fun experiment try running the Perl5-Porters mailing list on a Linux box with bulk_mailer and Majordomo. Been there. Done that. Made the kernel actually not choke.
-- Alan Olsen
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