On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 18:43:58 EST, Roger Fajman said:
> If it's all going out in under 4 seconds, then I'm not going to worry.  :-)

On the other hand, we move enough mail that if that average moves
from 4 seconds to 6 seconds, it means that something is probably
fairly hosed someplace and somebody needs to look at it.  The
last time something put a bump THAT big in our averages, it was our
main mail hub being down for a good chunk of a morning.

Remember, when you're tossing 250K connections and 1.5M RCPT TO's
a day, it takes a *LOT* for one destination to move the average.

Earlier releases of Sendmail were particularly notorious for starting
a truly hideous downward spiral if stuff started piling up in the
queue - fortunately, the 8.9 and 8.10.RealSoonNow releases have
much better support for multiple queues, etc, so high-volume
sites can deal better with a broken destination.

/Valdis