From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 24 18:16:21 1995 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA15262 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 18:16:21 -0700 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA15257 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 18:16:16 -0700 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id VAA20034; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 21:05:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 21:05:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: moving some mail. To: Gary Palmer cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4604.814564429@palmer.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 24 Oct 1995, Gary Palmer wrote: > I think we either need more memory in freefall, or a dedicated spool > disk or something to try and speed up delivery. I'm sure that a > pentium should be able to shift more mail than that. Mebbe the T1 is > starting to slow things down. i believe to be the network comms latency rather than local congestion. after all if the ping time is ~400ms how many smtp state changes can occur in a second while each side waits for the data to pass. > > bingo! that's 1 for 1, care to guess the other? > > Wild guess: nimh.gttw.com? BZZZZZT thank you for playing (been waiting a long time for that, sorry gary ;) the answer is mpp.minn.net > I >MAY< have a patch file to fix this somewhere. Have to go digging. send it in, please! Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.Org | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346