On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 06:19:08PM -0600, Jay Moore wrote: > Thanks for your encouragement. Maybe I'm reading the pfTop output > incorrectly, but doesn't it say that _my_ resource cost on this > transaction was 335K packets and 13 MBytes of bandwidth? If so, I > wouldn't call this "no effect" on my resources.
Obviously, it costs you as much bandwidth as it costs the sender, as any packet the peer sends, you receive and vice versa. But you don't waste as much CPU cycles, disk space and memory as the peer does. You might have delayed the entire queue of the sender by two days, who knows ;) 13MB in 48 hours (that's just 78 bytes per second) is considered a tiny stream by most people. If, for some reason, this means significant cost for you, don't run spamd. Just blocking the port with RST is cheaper. Daniel
