[Info-vax] TCPIP tying up system

[onedbguru]

On Nov 28, 1:00 pm, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
undress to reply) wrote:
> In article
> <73e08d81-4822-4136-9d67-7485aa4dc... at e20g2000vbx.googlegroups.com>,
>
> Steven Schweda <sms.antin... at gmail.com> writes:
> >    Lots of "Page flts", not many "Pages".  
>
> True.  This is a 3000/600 with 192 MB.  Soon to be replaced by an XP1000
> with 2 GB.  Should already have been, actually, but my wife is in the
> hospital so free time is reduced.  (For those who think that seems like
> a paradox, consider a small child at home.)
>
> > What did you do, overlay a VAX
> > installation (with its tiny memory requirements) with an Alpha
> > OS (with its significantly larger memory requirements)?  
>
> No.
>
> > Or
> > are the default values really that small?  
>
> Problably.
>
> > Or are you trying
> > to get by with 64MB of physical memory in this system?
>
> 192.
>
> >    Have you run AUTOGEN lately?
>
> Yes, regularly.  :-(
>
> Several years ago, for a time, I actually had 7.3-2 on 48 MB.  That was
> definitely too small.  Normally, there is NOT too little memory, just at
> occasional problems like this.


The process name definitely looks like smtp - I had an Alpha with
256MB that processed some 100K spam attack messages in a 24hr period
once...  didn't seem to slow too many things down.  The biggest reason
for this is that I had a manual process that involved stopping the
SMTP queues and having another batch job execute every 5 minutes or so
to remove things from the smtp queue and if it passed my spam filter
would be delivered to an "authorized" que to be processed.  It got to
be such a pain to deal with (time-wise) that I moved my mail MX server
to a free service that eliminated 99% of the spam.  I really did not
like having to see words referring to body parts and functions and
having to constantly tweak the spam filter with the 1M or so
permutations of those words.