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Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller

2004-01-28 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hi! Forgive me the cross-post, but this is rather urgent for me :-/ Does anyone know if the Debian kernel in woody-proposed-updates (2.4.22) supports Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller? Intel's web page says that it is supported by Suse and RH, but they make a binary driver available for download

oilafu

2004-01-28 Thread anna
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Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Benjamin Sherman said on Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:49:24PM -0600: > So, I have a couple of questions because this box made it to production > before the problem was discovered and I can't test as I'd like. > * If I were to use 64GB HIGHMEM support. Would this problem go away? Nope. > * Is the I/O

Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-28 Thread Benjamin Sherman
* Is the I/O patch referenced (by Ingo Molnar) available for 2.4.24? Possibly; it's certainly not merged into 2.4.24. Can anyone point me to the specific patch? I've got some machines in nearly the same configuration. What I ended up doing was to put an `append="mem=1G"' in the lilo.conf boot sta

Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Here's a question that has always been bugging me. Ever since we moved from smail to exim many years ago at my isp, exim never seems to discard messages in the input queue. Even though the single retry rule is the stock one (which retrys for something like 4 days), we end up with stuff that is

Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Benjamin Sherman said on Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:16:56PM -0600: > >I've got some machines in nearly the same configuration. What I ended up > >doing was to put an `append="mem=1G"' in the lilo.conf boot stanza for the > >kernel I was using, and rebooted the machine in question. > > > >This does

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Maarten Vink
Joe Emenaker wrote: Here's a question that has always been bugging me. Ever since we moved from smail to exim many years ago at my isp, exim never seems to discard messages in the input queue. Even though the single retry rule is the stock one (which retrys for something like 4 days), we end u

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Marcin Sochacki
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:23:02PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: > Even though the single retry rule is the stock one (which retrys for > something like 4 days), we end up with stuff that is weeks... months > old. Periodically, it would get pretty full and we'd notice that there These messages are

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Maarten Vink wrote: Does the output of the "mailq" command provide any useful information about these messages? My first guess would be that you're dealing with "frozen" messages Yup. A lot of them are frozen. If that is the case, have a look at the "timeout_frozen_after" setting; this will au

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Joe Emenaker schrieb am 28.01.04 um 22:23 Uhr: > Here's a question that has always been bugging me. > > Ever since we moved from smail to exim many years ago at my isp, exim > never seems to discard messages in the input queue. > > Even though the single retry rule is the stock one (which retr

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:23:02PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: > The directory was using 17 megs that really hurts performance on an ext2/ext3 partition. some other filesystems (e.g. reiser, xfs) aren't affected so badly by huge directories. > I'm not talking about the FILES in the directory.

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Dale E Martin
> exim doesn't scale. if you want performance, switch to postfix. Is there good documentation available for postfix? Last time I looked I could not find anything close to the quality of exim's. I'd be happy if that has changed though! Take care, Dale -- Dale E. Martin, Clifton Labs, I

Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Tomàs Núñez Lirola
Hi My smtp server (postfix) was receiving a lot of mails with empty senders ("mail from:<>"), and it sends them as they was from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I want to change this behaviour, so I added to main.cf the line 'smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_sender' thinking that "<>" is not

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Craig Sanders wrote: i can't answer your question, but here's some relevant advice for you: exim doesn't scale. if you want performance, switch to postfix. Yeah... well... I've already moved every other machine I deal with over to Courier. I like it because it's one-stop-shopping for all of

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread tps
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:36:29AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > i can't answer your question, but here's some relevant advice for you: > > exim doesn't scale. if you want performance, switch to postfix. I'm curious why you say that. I have exim on 3 smtp gateway machines servicing 11G+ email/da

Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Franz Georg Köhler
On Mi, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:48:54 +0100, TomÃs NÃÃez Lirola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > RTFM'ing, I don't find any more option to reject this kind of senders, so I > don't know what to do... > Am I doing anything wrong? Can anyone please help me? You must not reject messages with an empty en

Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Michael Loftis
It is an RFC requirement to accept <> as a valid MAIL FROM -- almost all bounce messages use this as well as certain other circumstances, to indicate they do not wish to receive a bounce message in the event of a delivery error. I don't even think that postfix allows it to be turned off at al

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 18:54 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious why you say that. I have exim on 3 smtp gateway machines servicing 11G+ email/day, hundreds of thousands of actual messages, doing LDAP lookups for routing, and MailScanner/f-prot running on all the boxes. FYI we'v

Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Fraser Campbell
On January 28, 2004 12:48 pm, Tomàs Núñez Lirola wrote: > My smtp server (postfix) was receiving a lot of mails with empty senders > ("mail from:<>"), and it sends them as they was from > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I want to change this behaviour, so I added to > main.cf the line Bounces are sent fro

Exim: Different mail retry times depending upon response from remote host...

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to realize that the following remote mailer messages give varying degrees of optimism regarding future delivery: 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable 452 Mailbox full 452 Insufficient disk space; try again later 421 Too many conc

Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders --good ;-)

2004-01-28 Thread Theodore Knab
I am happy that the protocol is so simple. If it was not for the RFC's, which do not work that well in modern times where would we work ? SMTP has been around for a very long time: "The SMTP specification originally started with the Mail Transfer Protocol in 1980, evolved into Si

Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-28 Thread Jose Alberto Guzman
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Benjamin Sherman said on Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:16:56PM -0600: I've got some machines in nearly the same configuration. What I ended up doing was to put an `append="mem=1G"' in the lilo.conf boot stanza for the kernel I was using, and rebooted the machine in question. This

Re: Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller

2004-01-28 Thread Dave Watkins
Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Marcin Owsiany wrote: Hi! Forgive me the cross-post, but this is rather urgent for me :-/ Does anyone know if the Debian kernel in woody-proposed-updates (2.4.22) supports Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller? Intel's web page says that it is supported

Re: Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller

2004-01-28 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > Hi! > > Forgive me the cross-post, but this is rather urgent for me :-/ > > Does anyone know if the Debian kernel in woody-proposed-updates (2.4.22) > supports Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller? > > Intel's web page says that it is supported by Sus

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Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller

2004-01-28 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hi! Forgive me the cross-post, but this is rather urgent for me :-/ Does anyone know if the Debian kernel in woody-proposed-updates (2.4.22) supports Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller? Intel's web page says that it is supported by Suse and RH, but they make a binary driver available for download

oilafu

2004-01-28 Thread anna
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Re: Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller

2004-01-28 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > Hi! > > Forgive me the cross-post, but this is rather urgent for me :-/ > > Does anyone know if the Debian kernel in woody-proposed-updates (2.4.22) > supports Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller? > > Intel's web page says that it is supported by Sus

Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Benjamin Sherman said on Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:49:24PM -0600: > So, I have a couple of questions because this box made it to production > before the problem was discovered and I can't test as I'd like. > * If I were to use 64GB HIGHMEM support. Would this problem go away? Nope. > * Is the I/O

Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-28 Thread Benjamin Sherman
* Is the I/O patch referenced (by Ingo Molnar) available for 2.4.24? Possibly; it's certainly not merged into 2.4.24. Can anyone point me to the specific patch? I've got some machines in nearly the same configuration. What I ended up doing was to put an `append="mem=1G"' in the lilo.conf boot stan

Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Here's a question that has always been bugging me. Ever since we moved from smail to exim many years ago at my isp, exim never seems to discard messages in the input queue. Even though the single retry rule is the stock one (which retrys for something like 4 days), we end up with stuff that is w

Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Benjamin Sherman said on Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:16:56PM -0600: > >I've got some machines in nearly the same configuration. What I ended up > >doing was to put an `append="mem=1G"' in the lilo.conf boot stanza for the > >kernel I was using, and rebooted the machine in question. > > > >This does

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Maarten Vink
Joe Emenaker wrote: Here's a question that has always been bugging me. Ever since we moved from smail to exim many years ago at my isp, exim never seems to discard messages in the input queue. Even though the single retry rule is the stock one (which retrys for something like 4 days), we end up

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Marcin Sochacki
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:23:02PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: > Even though the single retry rule is the stock one (which retrys for > something like 4 days), we end up with stuff that is weeks... months > old. Periodically, it would get pretty full and we'd notice that there These messages are

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Maarten Vink wrote: Does the output of the "mailq" command provide any useful information about these messages? My first guess would be that you're dealing with "frozen" messages Yup. A lot of them are frozen. If that is the case, have a look at the "timeout_frozen_after" setting; this will auto

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Joe Emenaker schrieb am 28.01.04 um 22:23 Uhr: > Here's a question that has always been bugging me. > > Ever since we moved from smail to exim many years ago at my isp, exim > never seems to discard messages in the input queue. > > Even though the single retry rule is the stock one (which retr

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:23:02PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: > The directory was using 17 megs that really hurts performance on an ext2/ext3 partition. some other filesystems (e.g. reiser, xfs) aren't affected so badly by huge directories. > I'm not talking about the FILES in the directory.

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Dale E Martin
> exim doesn't scale. if you want performance, switch to postfix. Is there good documentation available for postfix? Last time I looked I could not find anything close to the quality of exim's. I'd be happy if that has changed though! Take care, Dale -- Dale E. Martin, Clifton Labs, I

Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Tomàs Núñez Lirola
Hi My smtp server (postfix) was receiving a lot of mails with empty senders ("mail from:<>"), and it sends them as they was from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I want to change this behaviour, so I added to main.cf the line 'smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_sender' thinking that "<>" is not

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Craig Sanders wrote: i can't answer your question, but here's some relevant advice for you: exim doesn't scale. if you want performance, switch to postfix. Yeah... well... I've already moved every other machine I deal with over to Courier. I like it because it's one-stop-shopping for all of my

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread tps
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:36:29AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > i can't answer your question, but here's some relevant advice for you: > > exim doesn't scale. if you want performance, switch to postfix. I'm curious why you say that. I have exim on 3 smtp gateway machines servicing 11G+ email/da

Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Franz Georg Köhler
On Mi, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:48:54 +0100, TomÃs NÃÃez Lirola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > RTFM'ing, I don't find any more option to reject this kind of senders, so I > don't know what to do... > Am I doing anything wrong? Can anyone please help me? You must not reject messages with an empty e

Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Michael Loftis
It is an RFC requirement to accept <> as a valid MAIL FROM -- almost all bounce messages use this as well as certain other circumstances, to indicate they do not wish to receive a bounce message in the event of a delivery error. I don't even think that postfix allows it to be turned off at al

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 18:54 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious why you say that. I have exim on 3 smtp gateway machines servicing 11G+ email/day, hundreds of thousands of actual messages, doing LDAP lookups for routing, and MailScanner/f-prot running on all the boxes. FYI we've

Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Fraser Campbell
On January 28, 2004 12:48 pm, Tomàs Núñez Lirola wrote: > My smtp server (postfix) was receiving a lot of mails with empty senders > ("mail from:<>"), and it sends them as they was from > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I want to change this behaviour, so I added to > main.cf the line Bounces are sent fro

Exim: Different mail retry times depending upon response from remote host...

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to realize that the following remote mailer messages give varying degrees of optimism regarding future delivery: 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable 452 Mailbox full 452 Insufficient disk space; try again later 421 Too many conc

Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders --good ;-)

2004-01-28 Thread Theodore Knab
I am happy that the protocol is so simple. If it was not for the RFC's, which do not work that well in modern times where would we work ? SMTP has been around for a very long time: "The SMTP specification originally started with the Mail Transfer Protocol in 1980, evolved into Si

Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-28 Thread Jose Alberto Guzman
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Benjamin Sherman said on Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:16:56PM -0600: I've got some machines in nearly the same configuration. What I ended up doing was to put an `append="mem=1G"' in the lilo.conf boot stanza for the kernel I was using, and rebooted the machine in question. This

Re: Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller

2004-01-28 Thread Dave Watkins
Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Marcin Owsiany wrote: Hi! Forgive me the cross-post, but this is rather urgent for me :-/ Does anyone know if the Debian kernel in woody-proposed-updates (2.4.22) supports Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller? Intel's web page says that it is supported by Su