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From: | Eric Thomas <ERIC@FRECP11> |
Reply To: | Revised LISTSERV forum <LSTSRV-L@DEARN> |
Date: | Sun, 7 Feb 88 15:10:00 SET |
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I have been starting to monitor the console logs of my LISTSERV (which I
usually trash out) to try to determine why it has suddenly started eating 4h
of CPU time a week, instead of its normal average of 2h. In the last hour of
wall-clock time, it has swallowed up 10 minutes of CPU time. If it keeps going
at this rate, it will have eaten 4h of CPU in one day. If I look at the
console log, I see two request for short commands from local users, one
BIG-LAN distribution, and 37 INFO-VAX distributions. This has generated 407
outbound files, just for the french people on the list. Now I know why we are
recently experiencing traffic problems on the international lines.
I have peeked at some of the files and, although I'm not a VAX expert and can
therefore not judge their contents, it seemed like this list is addressing
just any kind of problem closely or remotely related to VAXes. I definitely
think that it should either be split into several sub-list addressing
different topic, or changed into a moderated list (volunteers?). Personally, I
can't see how I'll be able to justify doubling the CPU allowance for LISTSERV
just so that it may convey INFO-VAX stuff to other nodes, especially since we
have no VAX here and are not interested in this list. More generally, (13 more
files have showed up since I started typing this letter), I can't see how we
can justify spending so much bandwidth for this one list. At the very least, I
would like to recommend holding this list during prime time.
Eric
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