on Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 01:23:22AM -0700, Steve Lamb (grey@dmiyu.org) wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:07:03 +0100
> "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > during this four hour period -- or 1/6 day. That's about 5,760
> > messages/hour (assuming I can read and do math, which may be a stretch).
> > So your 1800 messages/hr would be lagging by 3 hours per hour of
> > runtime.
>
> Granted. But all of this came from Craig complaining that not feeding
> every message to SA let him process mail on his old machine. He
> forgot to mention that being a secondary for Osirus was eating a lot
> of cycles. Now he gave a solid figure which I don't have handy but
> remember was close to 25,000/week. That's 3571/day. Granted some
> weekdays will be higher than weekends. Be that as it may 4-5k/day is
> a far cry from 5.8k/hour. IE given the information we had at the time
> of his first post it was, uhm, laughable that SA was somehow the
> deciding factor in his mail load. Even if he is bursting high
> 1800/hour should be able to cover his mail load with that hardware.
> Is it enough for heavy usage at a small ISP? Hardly. But for his
> setup? Definitely.
Full agreement here, along with much of what you've posted elsewhere in
this thread.
Peace.
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