Sat, 7 Jan 1995 02:04:55 +0100
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The problem with UGA is the sheer amount of messages that they are
processing. In November, they processed a 30-day average of 618,122
messages per day (December is always less due to Christmas). This means
they're probably doing over a million during working days. That would be
11.5 messages every second on a 24-hour average, which probably means
20-25 messages per second during peak hours. They have a big machine, but
it's doing a lot of other things, and probably can't handle 20/sec
without impacting the users who are actually paying for the service :-)
At the end of the day, people go home and more cycles are available,
while at the same time there are less incoming messages. The reason this
wasn't a problem a year ago is that LISTSERV traffic has increased very
significantly this year. I don't have figures for UGA because they
installed 1.8a last summer. At SEARN and HEARN, traffic *tripled* from
9310 to 9410. UGA is one of the largest and most active LISTSERV sites
and I imagine that the same thing happened to them. For comparison, in
May someone at AOL told me they were getting close to hitting the million
a day mark, for their entire operation. My guess is that they must be in
the 5 million range now, but that gives you an idea of how much mail UGA
is dealing out on volunteered cycles.
Eric
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