[theforum] only ~12 hours of downtime today!
Dean Mah
dmah at shaw.ca
Tue Nov 7 07:31:48 CST 2006
Depending on your level of diligence, you can take advantage of the list
downtime to purge obvious e-mail messages from the queue, incoming and
outgoing. Make sure everything is down and then you can use a script
like qmHandle to remove queued messages. As well, removing e-mail
addresses that are obvious failures helps. And if you are willing to
lose some messages, you can ignore the bounce backs from spoof'ed
evolt.org e-mail addresses. As well, you can remove the mailman alias
that sends all unresolved local mail to the spam mailing list at the
risk of a false positive.
Dean
David Kaufman wrote:
> yippee. or, more from the "glass-half-full" perspective:
>
> 50% more uptime, on average, than the lists have had all week! :-)
>
> I kicked the server Sunday afternoon, it appeared to have been down
> since Saturday morning. This after the downtime from Tuesday afternoon
> till Friday night. I'm not sure if other sysadmins are kicking it too
> because the old kicks seem less and less effective, sometime the list
> mail starts flowing again after 30 minutes or an hour, other times not.
>
> I've added to my list of things to do when the lists are bogged down:
>
> - truncate the clamav logfile:
> echo -n > /var/spool/qmailscan/qmail-queue.log
>
> (it was 70megs the other day, 19 megs just now)
>
> - purge the virus quarantine dir (was 35,000+ files in there...)
>
> Legitimate list traffic is quite moderate. It's the damned constant
> deluge of crap which spamassassin must analyze and filter, and the
> attached virii, which clamav must scan.
>
> This is actually why I volunteered to take over for Dean when he dropped
> from exhaustion. I wanted mailserver combat chops on a high-volume
> server with oodles of traffic, both legitimate and evil, so's I can sell
> m'self as an smtp warrior (when the perl coder market dries up, as it
> often it does). So, I guess it's be-careful-what-you-wish-for time :-)
>
> John and I are gonna put our collective noggins together Real Soon
> Now... hopefully tonight, if we can sync schedules... and tackle this
> problem and kick its butt.
>
> You may expect to experience disruptions in service, time of
> instability, general mayhem and blood flowing in the gutters.
>
> But Keep the faith, evolutionaries! Though the enemy is legion, and
> we're armed only with the lowest-end Celeron money could er, rent ...in
> 2003, our cause is Just and the open source Wizards are on our side :)
>
> -dave (the lion-hearted)
>
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