From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 22 12:38:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA00910 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 12:38:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA00858 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 12:38:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by mail.cdsnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA06250; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 12:38:35 -0700 Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 12:38:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen To: Frank Nobis cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Tweaking FreeBSD (2.1) and sendmail for a busy site? Or maybe, Help! , No more sendmail's. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > To: Jaye Mathisen > 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 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 >