linux-kernel - Re: gmail is a bit too popular..

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Message-ID: <20070508064316.GF4226@stusta.de>
Date:	Tue, 8 May 2007 08:43:16 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@...iler.org>
Cc:	"John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@...-k-j.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gmail is a bit too popular..

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@...r.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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