> Subject: Re: 127.0.0.1 slow
>
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>
> > when i'm sending attachment from pine (which use localhost to connect to
> > sendmail) it sends first 100-200kB fast then very slowly - while only 8%
> > CPU is loaded. when using pipe instead of localhost everything is right.
>
> When you say pipe -- do you mean piping the message directly to "sendmail
> -t"?
yes.
> > why localhost is so slow?
>
> Did you configure pine like "smtp-server=127.0.0.1"?

yes. exactly

>
> At first, I was thinking that the slow down may be caused by missing
> reverse IP resolution, DNS timeouts or ident lookup timeouts. But you
> indicate that a lot of a message is sent fast.

no. it starts sending immediately, after a moment get about 5% (it wat
3.5meg attachment) and then SLOOOWLY sends rest 95% with only 8% CPU
usage. when setting SMTP server to another machine on local ethernet
instead of local machine's SMTP it goes normal speed.