Jimmy Wales wrote:
When the load on the machine goes over a certain
number, sendmail
takes a break. The changes that Brion made have the load running high
-- over 20. This keeps the website going, but has the unfortunate
side effect of preventing mail distribution.
I'm going to cut the MaxClients setting to 100 for a little while, to
let the mailing lists function for a bit, and then bump it back up.
The problem I see with mail and Web on the same host is, that if
something goes wrong on the website you can't send information via
email, because it is down/queuing only too.
The only thing left to do for reporting an error is searching Brion's
email address (or some other). And instead of having 2 or 3 emails via
the tech-list, Brion gets some hundred in his mail-box, because noboby
knows that the error is known.
I do not know about the hosting, but if you can connet an Intel PI with
a 10 GB HD near the Wiki-Host...move the mail Service, it will be faster.
Smurf
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