Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:19:24 +0100 | From | Florian Lohoff <> | Subject | Re: linux-kernel's extremely slow turnaround time |
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On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 06:16:39AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > 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.
What about splitting machines like routing "*.de" to a couple of alternative *.de relays (Donations ?)
With "sendmail" someone could to this with the mailertable like .de EMSPT:[alternative.de.relay.de]
Then the machine should send ONE mail to the *.de relay with loads of rcpt lines possibly even with smtp pipelining and the load for all recipients in the *.de domain is off the machine ...
This could be done redundant - sendmail does this
by [alt1.de.relay.de]:[alt2.de.relay.de]:[alt3.de.relay.de]
Now someone should evaluate what specs these machines should have - To the end of the week ill be able to have a machine up and running where this could be done (preferred MTA is postfix)
Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5241-470566 Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three). (RFC 1925)
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