[TheForge] Fwd: Re: Missing Posts on TheForge mail list

[Dave Brown]

I just received this message from the mailing list server's owner Al 
Waller.  I thought all of you would want to know about this as it explains 
why some postings seem to have been missed the last day or so.  But, they 
are in the archives.

It sounds like the problem is fixed, and for the better at that.

Dave Brown


>Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 09:35:59 -0500
>To: Dave Brown <quahog@tds.net>
>From: "Alan L. Waller" <k3tkj@qsl.net>
>Subject: Re: Missing Posts on TheForge mail list
>
>Dave,
>
>I had an issue with the new software that has been bugging the heck out of 
>me. The queing for messages was reversed....<snip> ... instead of first in 
>being first out ( FIFO).  It was doing last in first out (LIFO), so the 
>busier the system ( I host about 1000 lists on this server) the slower the 
>delivery took. Up to 24 hours at peak loads.
>
>So I rewrote some code..... <snip> ... after fixing the que the way I 
>thought it should work, I dumped all the existing queued messages so it 
>would now FIFO instead of LIFO. Probably the reason for the missing mail 
>and my apologies for that.
>
>So (while the wife was pissed at me for missing dinner out and the movie I 
>promised her) I  then redid the mail program for the server by 
>adding  a  25 channel mail que instead of the 1 that is normal. I got 
>about a 600% throughput from that.
>
>So far nothing else seems broken.
>
>I got 6 hours of sleep, I am now off to buy roses.....life is good.
>
>
>Happy New Year,
>
>Al
>
>