Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Steve Jorgensen Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:28:39 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199910291528.JAA12523@benson> To: Jason Bucata Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Compiling Sendmail With Cygwin? > I've received a few responses, including two copies of a patch that'll allow > Sendmail 8.9.3 to compile. So I guess the answer is "Go try it" :). > My next concern is performance/efficiency. How much of a performance hit > does the Cygwin "subsystem" take on Sendmail? What about the fact that > Sendmail uses processes instead of threads (which most NT-based systems I've > seen prefer)? Etc., etc. > If anyone has any actual experience, or even just some thoughts, in this > regard, please share. I don't have any experience with sendmail on cygwin, but I'm in the processing of porting Khoros Pro 2001 (A visual programming and software development environment with lots of dataprocessing/visualization routines) to cygwin. My experience is that while cygwin is noticably slower than the same code running on a linux box, it is not an extreme performance hit. It's certainly fast enough for our X applications to stay responsive enough. So, unless you're mail server will be handling a ton of email at a time, I'd guess cygwin will be able to handle it. Steve ----------------------------------------------------------- Steven Jorgensen steve@khoral.com steve@haunt.com ------------------------------+---------------------------- Khoral Research Inc. | PHONE: (505) 837-6500 6200 Uptown Blvd, Suite 200 | FAX: (505) 881-3842 Albuquerque, NM 87110 | URL: http://www.khoral.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------- -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com