4.2 lost mail

[jim at haring.UUCP]

    > You really don't want to set things up to always send mail-- I've seen a
    > 780 go to its knees because of sendmail (a loadaverage of 7 went to a
    > loadaverage of about 25 because of 4 simultaneous sendmails to large
    > mailing lists).
One thing which helps make this true is the 'sync' which the syslog daemon
would do after receiving every message, which zapped the buffer cache. It
should be taken out.

    > chuq (sendmail is a hog, but a useful one...)
Agreed.

Jim McKie    Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam    mcvax!jim