Mail list delays

[Manfred Hollstein]

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