Re: List Lag?

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Fri, 28 May 1999 15:32:27 +0100 (GMT)


On Wed, 26 May 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> > I am sure many poeple here have noticed the huge list lag
> > that occurs on all the mailing lists hosted by vger.rutger.edu
> > Anyone know if they plan on upgrading the machine or who to talk
> > to about this issue? Its quite annoying to send a message to a mailing
> > list and have it show up nearly 48 hours later.
>
> The Web page for vger says it is running on a SparcClassic. I mentioned
> the lag to the guys at VA Research and their Linux community guy said he
> could to host l-k on their speedy boxes hanging off of a T3...

rutgers has a T3, and turnaround a fortnight ago (for me, though I'm on an
exploder :) was well under 20 mins.

Perhaps it's renewed CVS activity on vger, or maybe something else is
wrong. It usually works fine, and personally, I like the fact that all
this mail gets handled by such a lowly machine.

Matthew.

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