Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Apr 1999 00:21:54 -0700 (PDT) | From | George Bonser <> | Subject | Re: 10 hour delay on linux-kernel(was SCSI error: hardware, software, or firmware?)) |
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On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Adam Heath wrote:
> The guy who sent this is my coworker, and I was watching for the email on the > list. He told me when he sent it. It didn't arrive until 10 hours later. I > highly doubt this is optimal. > > I wonder what kind of hardware this list is run on. Is it a 386-class(yes, I > know it is a sparc of some kind)? lists.debian.org does a HUGE amount of > traffic, and there is never more than a minute of turn-arounnd. It is a > p133/64m, with ide disks. > > Adam (how can we keep our record of low-digit hours in fixing bugs if the list > software has such slow turn-around?) >
It is probably not a hardware issue as much as it is an MTA issue. They are probably running sendmail and might have a large (relatively) number of subscribers with intermittant connectivity with dedicated IP domains without a permanently connected MX host. This probably results in the mail queue backing up as each of the offline sites' emails must time out before the next is processed.
I might suggest that vger change to exim.
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