Running caching named and sendmail together - problem?

[Kevin Darcy]

named tends to be memory-hungry, especially if you're talking about a
caching server. sendmail tends to use all types of resources (CPU, memory,
I/O), but under certain circumstances (e.g. when hit with a large
"spike" of incoming traffic) can also be memory intensive. As a general
rule, I'd stay away from putting those functions on the same box, but of
course if the box has memory to burn, combining them might make sense
economically...


- Kevin

susan hall wrote:

> Someone told me that he had seen on "some web site" advice to not run
> caching named and sendmail on the same box if the box is really busy.
> We have mail servers which can be so described, and I was wondering if
> anyone knew if there was really any issue here.  The statement was that
> named and sendmail use alot of the same resources, I think.
>
> Would appreciate any response, thanks,
>
> Susan