[NTLUG:Discuss] Be impressed/Be appalled

[MadHat]

On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 12:58, asenec at senechalle.net wrote:
> Naw, any of you who work with spam won't be appalled,
> but you will be impressed by what a 2.036 kernel machine
> is handling.
> 
> I've resorted to putting up firewalls against address ranges
> from which large amounts of spam originates--I had to since
> the never-ending, ever-growing flood of spam was about to 
> burn up our primary mailservers (incoming hubs for about 5K domains).
> At the moment, I have firewalls up against:
> 
> Total addresses firewalled:  19772961 
> 
> That's about 8750 fw rules--and look at the load:
> 
>  10:53am  up 1 day, 17:36,  3 users,  load average: 1.11, 1.63, 2.00
> 
> I have to give a round of applause to Linux (and of course, to sendmail which
> is working its little heart out filtering spam that does make it to our servers).

Whats the proc and mem in the box?

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`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here...'
   -- Lewis Carroll - _Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland_