On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:58:08AM -0500, Pascal Hakim wrote: > > I've looked at the headers of some posts of a recent thread that was > > both on d-o-m and d-d. Indeed messages sent to d-o-m arrived from 15 to > > 20 minutes later than on debian-devel. > > The crossassassin queue isn't cleared stricly every 15 minutes. When > the load on murphy is too high, the queue isn't cleared until the > load has dropped back to an acceptable level. There's some pretty > graphs of this happening on murphy.debian.org/mrtg, and specifically > at: http://murphy.debian.org/mrtg/murphy.queue-in.html When lots of > viruses and spam comes in, the queue simply gets bigger, and messages > delayed longer until the load drops back down when it simply starts > going through the queue again.
And of course, the program that actually flushes the queue is only called every 5 minutes, so under normal conditions it will take between 15 and 20 minutes. Cheers, Pasc
