Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 23 May 1996 23:53:13 -0400 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: majordomo problems? |
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Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 05:39:29 -0700 From: dougliu@netcom.com (Doug Liu)
I was curious about the majordomo mailing list program-- why do does mail sent to this mailing list vary in receving time, from minutes to weeks? I have read that using sendmail 8.x makes the majordomo program run more efficiently. Just as well, bulk_mailer has been reported to speed up delivery times. Does this mailing list use the above specified programs?
Pushing terabytes of mail on a daily basis and full ftp archival services on a sun4/200, and doing it efficiently is not easy.
There were tons of disk problems which ended up with vger finally eating it's /usr and / disk this past weekend, that has been fixed completely.
Another problem was that I lost vger's .com exploder for a period of time and that domain is the worst beast on the net. I had setup a temporary exploder locally but it ran out of /var space and is why the response times went down to null and certain poor folks got hit with some spam mails, for this I apologize but I was trying my best in desperation and I have learned that it is impossible to make everyone happy anyways.
This item has been fixed and I have the old exploder back.
I run zmailer as it is the only mailer which can keep up with the load all the time when something else isn't causing problems like the situations I described just now. Experiments were done with sendmail with and without bulk_mailer, and evidence showed sendmail to be a complete lose and was not able to keep up with the load vger carries. Zmailer was the only mailer able to handle the load on this poor overworked machine.
When things go smoothly it can push out all postings within 45 minutes, and this scenerio whould be returning shortly I hope.
Later, David S. Miller davem@caip.rutgers.edu
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