Re: [Exim] Brain Dead ISP's?

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Author: Avleen Vig
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To: Suresh Ramasubramanian
CC: Exim Users Mailing List
New-Topics: Re: [Exim] error response rate limiting vs. overloaded systems
Subject: Re: [Exim] Brain Dead ISP's?
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 07:01:13AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Greg A. Woods wrote:
> >I've yet to see a system that can handle normal peak loads without
> >slowing down which can't also handle at least a 60-second error response
> >delay for all SMTP errors. Furthermore note that the tuning needed to
>
> What about an already heavily overloaded system?


Greg:
Your idea is noble, and works on a small scale, but on the scale of
accepting 300+ new connections, per machine, per second, they just don't
work unless you at least quadrouple your hoursepower.