On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:13:12AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> when i set localhost as SMTP server in pine sending large mail goes at
> about 100kB/s on P-133 while ONLY 10% CPU is used.
> 
> setting it to another machine through ethernet goes at normal speed.
> 
> what's wrong in localhost that it's slower than real one

Maybe that machine is faster and its sendmail can write data faster to
queue dir ?
Try to send mail over ethernet from another machine to this machine
and look at speed and usage of hdd.

--wb