From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 17 13:22:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA02433 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 13:22:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA02427 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 13:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id NAA07990 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 13:22:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org [127.0.0.1] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.60 #1) id 0wHxd2-00049E-00; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 14:18:00 -0600 To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: Mail exploders... Cc: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Apr 1997 09:34:04 PDT." <199704171634.JAA19155@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <199704171634.JAA19155@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 14:17:59 -0600 From: Warner Losh Message-Id: Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199704171634.JAA19155@freefall.freebsd.org> "Jonathan M. Bresler" writes: : 49100 messages delayed 0 minutes : 3863 messages delayed 1 minutes : 214 messages delayed 2 minutes ... : 1 messages delayed 1241 minutes : 1 messages delayed 1281 minutes : 1 messages delayed 1321 minutes : 1 messages delayed 1352 minutes : : hmm.....i really should re-write this script to use a log scale for delay ;) Looks like a good use for Log Log display. While I don't know if a program can "lovingly render" this into ASCII graphics, it might no tbe such a bad idea to put together a plot pipeline that will send you a graph. When things are on the left of the graph, then you know life is good. When they start to move to the right, you know bad things are happening. Warner