Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 1999 02:05:48 -0600 (CST) | From | Shawn Leas <> | Subject | Re: linux-kernel's extremely slow turnaround time |
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On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, David S. Miller wrote:
> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 14:36:57 -0500 > From: Jordan Mendelson <jordy@wserv.com> > > Also, what kind of box is vger right now and what kind of > CPU/memory load is the box at on average? > > SS10, 40Mhz SuperSparc, 128MB ram. Running 2.0.33vger + bunch of > local networking hacks to kill various bogus sites sending ICMP > redirects to it (some I caught were from Australia, haha very > funny... ftp.kernel.org gets these from time to time too) > > Keep in mind that vger also does loads of CVS activity (read as: very > disk and memory intensive) and this can cut into the cpu time zmailer > gets and occaisionally causes thrashing when many people hit vger with > anoncvs updates etc. (so for the weekend I have anoncvs turned off so > vger can catch up with all the email backlog). > > A little known fact that caused the recent problems is that the > subscription list to linux-kernel tripled in size around the time when > Linus started doing 2.2.0 pre-releases and the masses started to > notice.
Have ya ever tried qmail? I can't comment on it's ability to handle huge lists, but I here it's pretty scalable.
zmailer is nice too, don't get me wrong... I was just wondering how the two compare.
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