From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 15 8:51: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [64.0.106.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 938E137B417; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:50:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scanner@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (scanner@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA14069; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:50:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:50:48 -0400 (EDT) From: To: Charles Randall Cc: "'Robert Watson'" , Alfred Perlstein , Rajappa Iyer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Sysadmin article In-Reply-To: <5FE9B713CCCDD311A03400508B8B30130828EFAA@bdr-xcln.corp.matchlogic.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Charles Randall wrote: > Did anyone offer to contact Lyris directly to identify a configuration which > would have fared better in their tests? Since their application is available > for FreeBSD, it is in our best interests for to help them out. On a side note, I did contact them about 2 days before this article appeared since TWA uses Lyris (now on FreeBSD :-) it was running on linux) and asked them if they planned on supporting kqueue in the FreeBSD version. The tech rep said they had no plans but she would forward it to the developers since I made a feature request. The software itself is a bit goofy. It keeps defered mail around for *way* to long. We have 1.2 million subscribers to mail on monday. It sends out about 98% in 4 hours of the list subscribers. And has ~4500 defered mails because of down mail hosts, undeliverable mails, etc.. And it keeps them around for DAYS instead of flushing the queue periodically. Which it should since that is what this is app's main goal is for is a mailing list/spam sender. I have yet to find a way to manually force the queue to flush on it either. It uses a FoxPro DB to store members in AFAIK. Why it's not a berkeley db is beyond me. On a 1-10 I give the app a 7 for its purpose. I still think a properly tuned Postfix box would destroy this software but they claim otherwise. Naturally. ============================================================================= -Chris Watson (316) 326-3862 | Sr. Unix Administrator Work: chris.watson@twa.com | Trans World Airlines, Kansas City, MO Home: scanner@jurai.net | http://www.twa.com ============================================================================= WINDOWS: "Where do you want to go today?" LINUX: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" BSD: "Are you guys coming or what?" ============================================================================= irc.openprojects.net #FreeBSD -Join the revolution! ICQ: 20016186 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message