Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 13 Nov 2001 19:05:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: 2.4.x has finally made it! |
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matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de (Matthias Andree) wrote on 13.11.01 in <20011113171836.A14967@emma1.emma.line.org>:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Alastair Stevens wrote: > > > For those who haven't seen it yet, Moshe Bar at BYTE.com has revisited his > > Linux 2.4 vs FreeBSD benchmarks, using 2.4.12 in this case: > > > > http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1794/byt20011107s0001/1112_moshe.html > > Wow. That person is knowledgeable... NOT. Turning off fsync() for mail > is just as good as piping it to /dev/null. See RFC-1123.
I rather think a non-fsync() system has a very much higher rate of successful mail deliveries than a /dev/null one, and only slightly (if at all) lower than a fsync() one.
Now, that slight difference *can* be rather important if you're a major mail hub - or it can be below the noise level in an end user system. In either case, however, *nobody* will accept /dev/null as an equivalent substitute.
Well, nobody but you.
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