On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Chris Edwards wrote:

> Perhaps I'm out of touch, but I'd have thought if you're regularly getting 
> load av. in the "tens", then it may be time for some new(er) boxes.

I probably agree, but that isn't going to happen this week.

> | Any comments welcome, positive or negative.  I feel this change was too 
> | easy, and something might bite.
> 
> If you're defering lots of connections, I'd have thought the delaying of 
> much normal mail from proper MTAs that *do* retry would be more noticeable 
> to users than the rare loss of something that doesn't retry.

I'd have thought so too, but not enough for people to complain about it so 
far.  And neither do I encourage any expection that email systems are 
'immediate'!  Connections tend to be deferred only at the busiest times of 
day, around lunchtime essentially.

Thanks for the comments.

Jethro.

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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services
University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

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