From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 23 15:07:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA19683 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:07:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA19678 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:07:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA23525; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 16:10:17 -0700 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 16:10:17 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199602232310.QAA23525@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Ollivier Robert Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail routing and duplicates:wq In-Reply-To: <199602231821.TAA19549@keltia.freenix.fr> References: <199602231821.TAA19549@keltia.freenix.fr> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Seriously though, it does have it's downsides.. The mail queues are now > > spread all over the planet, and our postmaster (JMB) can't kill bouncing > > mail until it eventually times out after 5 days. > > Maybe it is time to look at "qmail" ? It is a sendmail replacement made by > D.J. Bernstein whichi claim to more secure (by using smaller non-root > programs) and faster (by parallelizing more and -- I think -- using > pre-fork à la httpd). I doubt anything can help too much. Basically, freefall is pushing a *LOT* of mail. More parallelizing is simply adding more load, unless the programs are smaller. Basically, freefall is spending all it's time pushing bits and isn't as useful for development. However, most of the developers only commit on freefall, so it's used less and less for actual compiles so it's becoming less of an issue of freefall's load and more of an issue of WC network link. Nate