popa3d-users - Re: popa3d on solaris 9

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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 04:00:27 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: popa3d on solaris 9

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 06:50:14PM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote:
> I have compiled popa3d-0.6.3 on solaris 9 (x86) and quite impressed with 
> performance :)
> 
> However I was wondering if there was any advantage to adjusting any of the 
> settings (buffers?) on params.h for my setup?

Most likely not.  But if you _really_ want to play with this, the two
settings are FILE_BUFFER_SIZE and RETR_BUFFER_SIZE.  You probably want
to keep them within a half of your L2 cache size, but possibly larger
than the default.

> PS. I am not looking for a flame, but just any tips on enhancing 
> performance from a terrific pop3 daemon :)

If you're really into performance, then Solaris/x86 is probably the
wrong choice.  I suggest that you try with Linux and compare.  We'd be
interested to hear of your results.

Oh, and I don't mean to start a flame too. :-)

> thanks!

You're welcome. :-)

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