[Mailman-Users] Mailman b5 lockup

[Chuq Von Rospach]

Thanks!

At 4:39 AM -0400 9/5/00, Ron Jarrell wrote:
>  I also run an MCI_CACHE_SIZE of 30,

intersting. I haven't tried that. I'll have to..

>with a timeout of 35, and have the QUEUE_SORT_ORDER set to host.

I've done a fair amount of work with queuesortorder, and I found it 
actually didn't speed anything up. On my larger systems, delivery 
took just as long. FWIW, YMMMV. So I stopped using it.

>  (Although I'll
>go in every few days and run a special queue run sorted by time with 
>higher timeouts,
>to catch problematic hosts.

I just ran sendmail out of cron once an hour with queuesortorder=time...

>For other interesting timeouts, I lowered the IDENT timeout to 15 
>seconds (too many
>PCs were broken w.r.t things hitting their ident ports,

I set IDENT to 0, to turn it off completely. So much is broken, and 
many firewalls don't propogate it. It's pretty worthless. Even 15 
seconds isn't worth it.

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