Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site haring.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!mcvax!turing!haring!jim From: jim@haring.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: 4.2 lost mail Message-ID: <369@haring.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 21:46:34 EST Article-I.D.: haring.369 Posted: Mon Dec 3 21:46:34 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 05:29:20 EST References: <6079@brl-tgr.ARPA> <> <1942@nsc.UUCP> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 14 Apparently-To: rnews@turing > You really don't want to set things up to always send mail-- I've seen a > 780 go to its knees because of sendmail (a loadaverage of 7 went to a > loadaverage of about 25 because of 4 simultaneous sendmails to large > mailing lists). One thing which helps make this true is the 'sync' which the syslog daemon would do after receiving every message, which zapped the buffer cache. It should be taken out. > chuq (sendmail is a hog, but a useful one...) Agreed. Jim McKie Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam mcvax!jim