jmcg@decvax.UUCP (Jim McGinness) (02/05/84)
The backlog now appears to be under control. We're not entirely up-to-date on news, but there no longer appears to be any mail waiting on our main Usenet neighbors. We did get a feeling for what decvax's capacity for handling news and uucp traffic is. We have about 20 sites and pseudo sites in our news `sys' file and most of these are not batched. A new article gets posted to an average of about 15 sites, which takes between 3-12 minutes, depending on load. We generally have at least two execution streams going, so our peak news handling capacity in the last few days was over 700 new articles received plus over 300 duplicates rejected. We also had 1400 incoming mail requests and 1200 outgoing mail requests--unfortunately that includes a fair amount of junk mail: execute status returned from unmodified UUXs and "cannot send mail" messages that seem to bounce back and forth and multiply when mail tries to cross gateways. The uucp traffic usually runs about 2000-5000 files received and 12000 files out. I've seen us manage to move 17000 files out in one day, but that was accomplished only with a fair amount of attention to keeping the dialers busy when there weren't other users around. The discrepancy between files in and files out is mainly a result of our news distribution fanout, not because we generate a lot of outgoing traffic ourselves. --jmcg 'EOF'