[Info-vax] TCPIP tying up system

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 11/29/2010 8:24 PM, onedbguru wrote:
> 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.
>

The words and the body parts and/or acts they refer to are not going to 
automagically disappear!

There are good spam filters available.  Yes, they cost money.  If you 
find a filter that is both "good" and free, please let us know!!!!!!

My ISP runs a VERY good filter.  It doesn't filter ALL the spam but does 
filter out most of it.