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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@cs.yale.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.smail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: sendmail vs. qmail
Date: 13 Dec 1996 17:50:03 -0500
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
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shalunov@math.wisc.edu (stanislav shalunov) writes:
> And, furthermore, do you claim that you have proven it with actual
> measurements?
I think he mostly claims:
actual measurements show that the case you mention is rare
enough to be dismissed. And actual measurement shows that even though there is
more data transmitted, using parallel delivery can be faster (wall-clock time)
because of several side-effects (like timesouts which may cancel the whole
transfer and force it to be restarted from scratch later)
Stefan