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Re: Mail list delays
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Mail list delays
- From: Manfred Hollstein <manfred at s-direktnet dot de>
- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:25:28 +0200 (MET DST)
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- References: <23568.892620968@hurl.cygnus.com>
- Reply-To: Manfred Hollstein <manfred at s-direktnet dot de>, Manfred dot Hollstein at ks dot sel dot alcatel dot de
On Wed, 15 April 1998, 00:16:08, law@cygnus.com wrote:
>
> I haven't timed a message recently, but I suspect the multi-day
> delay problem should be much better now.
Yes, it is! Today I sent a message at around 8:30am and got it back
from the list at around 9:30am. Thank you for the effort!
>
> Some recent changes we made to the mail configuration on Cygnus's
> mailserver have reduced the size of the bulk queue to about 1/3
> of its previous steady state size. As a result I think messages
> are getting to most recepients much quicker than before.
>
> We've got more changes planned, but it will be a while before we
> can implement them. Hopefully the recent changes are enough to
> keep things from getting too bad before we can put the long term
> fixes in place.
>
>
> I'm kinda hoping that the duplicate mail message problem was due to
> a locking/race issue or some such that was exposed by the huge
> queues. If not we'll have to do more digging.
I haven't seen dups recently.
>
> jeff
manfred