From owner-freebsd-hubs Sun Aug 4 17:32:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hubs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA05077 for hubs-outgoing; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 17:32:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA05065; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 17:32:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199608050032.RAA05065@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Helllp :-) To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 17:32:01 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199608050019.TAA29915@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Aug 4, 96 07:19:35 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hubs@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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