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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 1996 16:10:17 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mail routing and duplicates:wq
Message-ID:  <199602232310.QAA23525@rocky.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <199602231821.TAA19549@keltia.freenix.fr>
References:  <peter.825068720@jhome.DIALix.COM> <199602231821.TAA19549@keltia.freenix.fr>

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> > 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



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