Messages in this thread |  | | From | Jared Mauch <> | Subject | Re: majordomo problems? | Date | Fri, 24 May 1996 13:09:39 -0400 (EDT) |
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I'm interested to know how long it's taking messages to get out to you *.com'ers, if you could send me one of your message headders to postmaster@work.nether.net, I'd appreciate it (that person does the exploding for *.com)
- Jared
David S. Miller graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge: > 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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