1) Disk is running thin
I had some time to look at disk space. The big RAID was at 82% capacity. I did some "fossilizing" compression of inactive lists, bringing us down to 76%. Probably six months of room left or less, and gigantic cheap IDE RAIDS are still nowhere in sight. I'll think about this again when it hits 85%+. 2) Message count affected The message count is just an estimate tied to df (it's too expensive to count the millions of messages daily) so this number artificially got chopped during the compression. I'd guesstimate we're somewhere around 6 million, but I'm not going to bother adjusting the estimator. 3) RAM, kernel upgrade successful The GB of RAM is in place and caching away. The simultaneous upgrade to 2.2.17 kernel went off without a hitch. No other upgrades seem around the corner. MHonArc's point release doesn't have anything I desperately need, htdig is still a while away from a stable release. Debian Potato seems to be holding it's own with the auto-security updates. The machine's move to a new physical location seemed to go well, someday I should figure out exactly where that new location is. :) 4) RBL plans scrapped I set Exim to use the RBL to tag spam with a special header. The results just weren't good enough to use as a filter. 5) Egroups ban considered Probably 75% of my problems (complaints, abuse, etc.) stems from Egroups one way or another. It's partly due to Egroups not being 100% clueful, but mostly due to the userbase Egroups attracts. I wonder if bouncing all mail coming from that domain would make my life easier and simultaneously save not-trivial amounts of disk space. 6) Attachments ban or limitation considered I'm going to punt the decision on attachments a while longer. Getting rid of .vbs .jpg and .exe eliminate several categories of problems. Maybe a smarter move is to put a size limit on attachments, something anemic like 20k. 7) Spambot activity probably rising I don't have direct evidence here, but I suspect spambots are trying harder to scour mail-archive. Don't know how successful countermeasures are holding. My personal, unprotected inbox is getting something like 4 spams a day. 8) Web traffic rising and mostly robotic The last two weeks averaged something like 10 page views per unique host (for 2+GB/day of data transmitted over http) with Google and AltaVista crawlers being top hogs. I bet the majority of page requests on the internet today are not at the behest of humans -- that certainly seems to be mail-archive's case. Of coure, there are still quite a few humans using the service. 9) Excellent performance Mail is being archived within an hour on average. The holiday light traffic helps, but we're in better shape performance wise than we have been in years. I remember last year at this time, things were much more touch and go. _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
