Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 16:30:09 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail routing and duplicates Message-ID: <199602250030.QAA29252@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199602232310.QAA23525@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Feb 23, 96 04:10:17 pm
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Nate Williams wrote: > > > 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). archie at rutgers.edu did not fnd qmail for me, unless you mean qmailtlx.arc ??? nah.... > > 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. Freefall moves a lot of mail as of Fri Feb 23 16:34:01 PST 1996 Statistics from Sat Feb 10 04:13:55 1996 M msgsfr bytes_from msgsto bytes_to Mailer 0 0 0K 12950 28404K prog 1 0 0K 3647 8691K *file* 3 47246 165175K 32781 72600K local 6 12099 39706K 1859747 3875253K smtp8 7 3 4K 54 123K relay ======================================== T 59348 204885K 1909179 3985071K that's 3.3 kB/s thru the smtp8 mailer average over nearly two weeks now mail flow is not uniformly distributed over the day, but rather has peaks and slack time. dats a WOT ah mail!
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