Hello Sniffer Folks, I am working with version i8 now under test on our NT4 box. This version improves on i7 when under EXTREME load conditions approaching failure. Specifically wherever the Loop time approaches 8 seconds. Most folks should never see conditions like this, but we push our server very, very hard, and so we have seen that version i7 reaches a threshold under these conditions beyond which the load on the server can become unrecoverable.
Version i8 solves this by altering the client timing limits when under these conditions so that failure conditions are more linear in this range... that is, when pushed in to this range the load on the server will tend to increase linearly rather than abruptly so that automatic recovery from these extreme conditions is possible. I expect that I will be able to publish version 2-3.0i8 within the next 2 hours. Thanks, _M PS: I discovered these failure conditions after adjusting our gateway Postfix configuration which had become bogged down with outbound bounce messages et al. When the adjustments were complete the gateway began the heavily load our IMail box and forced it into the failure mode described above when the time to process a batch of messages exceeded 8 seconds. Live and learn. This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html
