On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 02:45:22PM -0500, Sam wrote:
# On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Justin Bell wrote:
#
# > # No inetd in existance can be configured for higher connections, yet still
# > # implement load limiting. Nobody running Qmail in any kind of a production
# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# > # mode will be able to get it work with inetd.
# > umm, I beg to differ, running qmail as a gateway between firewall and
# > internet, using inetd with several thousand messages a day, and we were
# > running mailing lists from this box at one time,
#
# [ snip ]
#
# Wait until someone mailbombs you. Your inetd doesn't keep of spawned
# services? That means that it'll keep spawning them until the kernel
# crashes.
this server has been in production for well over a year, handling that many
and more messages per day, 47000 over the 6 days from Dec 30-Jan4
we have been mailbombed, our ISP was temporarily banned from sendmail mail to
AOL and routed through our server their list of 3-4000 aol users (mailing
list, ezmlm) one message at a time, the load brought on by smtpd was
miniscule, the load brought on by qmail-remote was fairly large though.
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