Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:18:00 -0600 (CST) | From | Adam Heath <> | Subject | Re: linux-kernel's extremely slow turnaround time |
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On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> Jordan Mendelson <jordy@wserv.com> wrote: > > Alan Cox wrote: > ... > > > I doubt DaveM needs convincing, if someone can ship him a bigger box to > > > replace Vger Im sure he'd be very happy > > > > Anyone know how much mail on average vger.rutgers.edu handles per day? > > With all the mailing lists it handles it might be worth while to add a > > second box instead of replacing vger. I noticed it used zmailer and I'm > > not sure how it's performance compares to sendmail. > > With these loads, sendmail would have killed the box > ages ago... The main problems spin around Majordomo, > and the ``small'' fact that each posting to any list > goes once thru Majordomo, and THRISE thru the mailer > with one run with 3000+ recipients.
Um, why sendmail/majordomo? Debian uses qmail, which has built-in list handling. It is fast(but non-free, ick). To see some stats, go to http://murphy.debian.org/mrtg/(this is lists.debian.org)
We have turn-around times of not more than 20 minutes. The machine is a pentium 75, with 64m, and 120m of swap.
> > The queue at the MTA is right now 6170 messages. > During previous 7 hours the MTA has handled 380 000 > recipient addresses. > > The system disk at which there is all Majordomo, MTA, > CVS, Anon-FTP, and home-directory load is ST15230N > at a moderate (propably 5MHz SYNC) SCSI bus. > > Also, VGER and Dave are not at the same side of the > continent. We have done some planning about this > with Dave, but it will take some months to resolve. > Dave does have machines, have no fear, but they > are in California, while VGER is at New Jersey. > Maybe VGER's linux-list services need to change their > domain -- like to lists.kernel.org, lists.linux.org. > That way it won't be tied to Rutgers anymore. > > > Also, what kind of box is vger right now and what kind of CPU/memory > > load is the box at on average? > > SparcStation10/50MHz, 128 MB RAM with 50 MHz SuperSparc. > Average load-average is 5 to 10, and only one process > is doing email routing -- e.g. it is getting 10-20% > of CPU to do that task. > > > Guess we need a save the vger fund. :) > > Jordan > > -- > > Jordan Mendelson : http://jordy.wserv.com > > Web Services, Inc. : http://www.wserv.com > > /Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi> > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
Adam Heath
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