Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 17:03:42 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: jgreco@solaria.sol.net (Joe Greco) Cc: jmb@freebsd.org, freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Helllp :-) Message-ID: <199608050003.RAA03532@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199608041643.LAA18878@solaria.sol.net> from "Joe Greco" at Aug 4, 96 11:43:30 am
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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... > > smyrno# ls -l mai* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 973 Aug 4 02:00 maillog > -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 5890048 Aug 3 11:37 maillog.0 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 16175138 Aug 3 02:00 maillog.1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 16410811 Aug 2 01:59 maillog.2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 12255062 Aug 1 02:00 maillog.3 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 11035721 Jul 31 02:00 maillog.4 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 8996236 Jul 30 02:00 maillog.5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 6475362 Jul 29 02:00 maillog.6 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 5833580 Jul 28 02:00 maillog.7 > > The 4-5MB logfile was typically the norm. At 11:37 on Aug 3 the disk > filled. > > I'm going to get another disk (my /var is currently only 100MB) but I was > wondering if there was some change made at freebsd.org that caused this. > > I've noticed little "spikes" like this once or twice before... 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! since 2 am PST (960804): 57788 7805 7.40 Max Total 14667 1014 14.46 26 ns2.harborcom.net. 12450 880 14.15 26 mail.freebsd.sol.net. 7946 927 8.57 21 sel1.zit.th-darmstadt.de. 6675 617 10.82 23 halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu. 2887 518 5.57 22 ra.dkuug.dk. 24 hours before 2 am PST (960803): 112839 14651 7.70 Max Total 29095 2136 13.62 26 mail.freebsd.sol.net. 25652 1930 13.29 26 ns2.harborcom.net. 15146 1723 8.79 23 sel1.zit.th-darmstadt.de. 13348 1159 11.52 23 halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu. 5449 894 6.10 23 ra.dkuug.dk. back up another 24 hours (960802): 106733 14530 7.35 Max Total 26981 1893 14.25 26 ns2.harborcom.net. 24299 1730 14.05 26 mail.freebsd.sol.net. 12891 1164 11.07 23 halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu. 12846 1538 8.35 21 sel1.zit.th-darmstadt.de. 5900 1026 5.75 22 ra.dkuug.dk. again (960801): 175219 22838 7.67 Max Total 36167 2694 13.43 26 ns2.harborcom.net. 35779 2485 14.40 26 mail.freebsd.sol.net. 20682 2521 8.20 23 sel1.zit.th-darmstadt.de. 17879 1613 11.08 23 halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu. 17247 1219 14.15 26 ref.tfs.com. 9764 1578 6.19 23 ra.dkuug.dk. again (960731): 134919 17599 7.67 Max Total 27613 1996 13.83 26 ref.tfs.com. 25502 1877 13.59 26 mail.freebsd.sol.net. 16021 2125 7.54 21 sel1.zit.th-darmstadt.de. 15649 1364 11.47 23 halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu. 13394 1018 13.16 26 ns2.harborcom.net. 7785 1214 6.41 22 ra.dkuug.dk. again (960730): 152280 20463 7.44 Max Total 29201 2067 14.13 26 ref.tfs.com. 24005 1754 13.69 26 mail.freebsd.sol.net. 22130 1563 14.16 26 ns2.harborcom.net. 18706 2193 8.53 21 sel1.zit.th-darmstadt.de. 16910 1586 10.66 23 halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu. 7783 1326 5.87 22 ra.dkuug.dk. 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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