Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 12:38:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net> To: Frank Nobis <fn@radio-do.de> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Tweaking FreeBSD (2.1) and sendmail for a busy site? Or maybe, Help! , No more sendmail's. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.960922123731.353M-100000@mail.cdsnet.net> In-Reply-To: <ygesp8a3omp.fsf@trinity.radio-do.de>
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Nope, it actually was happening when our Internet connection was down, and I think the sendmails were hanging waiting on nameservice. But I could still only get 13 of them running no matter what. On 22 Sep 1996, Frank Nobis wrote: > Date: 22 Sep 1996 11:06:22 +0200 > From: Frank Nobis <fn@radio-do.de> > To: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net> > Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: Tweaking FreeBSD (2.1) and sendmail for a busy site? Or maybe, Help! , No more sendmail's. > > >>>>> "Jaye" == Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net> writes: > > Jaye> If you'll note in the original message, la is not the issue. > Jaye> The load rarely climbs over 1.0. This is something to do > Jaye> with # of processes. > > Oops, I should read a little more than just the subject :-) > > Jaye> I point out to that it appears that if la was the issue, > Jaye> there would be Connection Refused, rather than no connection > Jaye> at all. > > Just an other thought; Do you receive SYN's at a very fast rate in > that case? Maybe it is the same problem that described in the latest > SYN Flood vulnerability. > > Regards > Frank > -- > Frank Nobis Email: fn@Radio-do.de PGP AVAILABLE > Landgrafenstr. 130 dg3dcn http://www.radio-do.de/~fn/ > 44139 Dortmund Powered by FreeBSD Fax: +49 231 7213816 >
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