Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 17:32:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Helllp :-) Message-ID: <199608050032.RAA05065@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199608050019.TAA29915@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Aug 4, 96 07:19:35 pm
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Joe Greco wrote: > > > Joe Greco wrote: > > > > > > Something's changed in the last day or three that's caused the machine > > > hosting mail.freebsd.sol.net some pain and agony... > > > > we had a mail surge this week. i got 1600++ bounces yesterday alone. > > here are some mail stats--first column is addresses, 2nd is messages, > > third is addrs/msg leaving freefall (this is the effect of bulkmailer > > by the way). freefall's maillog for jul 31st is 24MB! > > Well disk is cheap :-) > > I've been a little unhappy with just how hard that poor drive has been > getting hammered anyways (sounds like rapid machine gun fire as Sendmail > iterates through the queue, it's an older Wren drive, and with 752 > queued requests right now it's busy for a fair portion of each half > hour). yeah, we move a lot of mail....lst week we did over 2 GB by thursday (memory, not verified). ns2.harborcom.net is a major player in delivering mail, as you can see from the stats. i done know how we would do it without yourself and the other relays ;) jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB
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