Re: gmail is a bit too popular..

Adrian Bunk
2007-05-08T06:43:21Z

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:35:11PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:03:54AM -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
> > > In the linux-kernel -list subscribers domain popularity
> > > analysis I got following results:
> > >
> > > 2101 gmail.com
> > > 49 googlemail.com
> > > 46 gmx.de
> ....
> > How about some elitism here? Dedicate a certain number of streams to
> > everything-except-gmail, so MTAs from the 21st century can get their mail
> > faster, and set the rest on gmail-only. Slows down gmail and speeds up the
> > rest?
>
> No need. gmail has done that slowing down all by themselves quite handily..
>
> VGER has dedicated number of streams to gmail, and bigger pools to elsewere.
> The gmail parallelism-pool is configured so that daily message volume does
> usually make it thru in a day. I would prefer it going much faster...
>
> If you are interested to see VGER's queues and monitor gauges, they are viewable
> with tools at web-page:
>
> http://vger.kernel.org/z/
>
> Most of what it tells is not easily understandable, and much needs deep internal
> system knowledge to be understood at all - but mostly the queue display is
> self-explanatory.
>
> /Matti Aarnio
>
> PS: Contact address for VGER's postmasters is: postmaster@vger.kernel.org

BTW (not related to gmail):
Are there any news regarding the buggy 451 handling in zmailer I'm
reporting again and again that regularly results in every single
linux-kernel message sent to me being delayed by up to 13 hours?

TIA
Adrian

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