[NTLUG:Discuss] Be impressed/Be appalled

[asenec@senechalle.net]

red:/etc/rc.d# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor	: 0
cpu		: 686
model		: AMD Athlon(tm) processor
vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
stepping	: 4
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid		: yes
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov 16 17 mmx 24
bogomips	: 1330.38
red:/etc/rc.d# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        515628     496884      18744     177440     372660      46396
-/+ buffers/cache:      77828     437800
Swap:        65672          0      65672
red:/etc/rc.d# 


Note, too, that both our primary and secondary mailservers are 
dedicated exclusively to mail, aside from running a few various and
sundry housekeeping utilities (we do expect our servers to
clean up after themselves, no matter what other tasks are
demanded of them).


Annette

> From madhat at unspecific.com Tue Jun 10 13:42:09 2003
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> 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?
> 
> -- 
> MadHat at Unspecific.com
> `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_
> 
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