[WBEL-users] Re:Whitebox-users digest, Vol 1 #305 - 14 msgs

[Shackmaster]

William --

Unfortunately these limits only work on the number of simultaneous
connections, not on the bandwidth used.

Unfortunately when Y! (or similar) gets it in their head that they want to
pipeline their e-mail to our server, they fill our pipe, and render it
useless to everyone else.

What I need is a way to limit every TCP connect to only 10k a second, or
something to that affect.

Failing that, an overall bandwidth cap at the OS level would work.

Failing that, we will buy a switch/router that supports rate limiting.

I thought maybe someone on this list would know of a WBEL solution which
allows granular bandwidth control.

-- Ladar


Message: 13
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 13:02:21 -0400
From: William Warren <hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>
To: Shackmaster <shackmaster@nerdshack.com>
CC: whitebox-users@beau.org
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Rate Limiting]

http://www.postfix.org/rate.html

courtesy of google..do not know if this will help or not

Shackmaster wrote:

> We use postfix/qpopper/amavis (clamd & spmassain) and process about 10k
>
> messages a day. With a CPU average of 10%. (P4 1.5 + 768)
>
> Does postfix support rate limiting? I don't remember reading anything
> about it, but I could be wrong.
>
> -- Ladar
>
>
>
> http://www.nerdshack.com
>
> Mario Gamito wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Exactly the same problem here too.
>> A mail server with about a month, and just 1 hour ago the server reached
>> the point of not responding at all. Even on the console. I have to
>> cold reboot it.
>> The statistics shows nothing special at that time.
>>
>> What do you have ?
>> I have qmail/vpopmail/spamassassin/qmail-scanner
>>
>> Warm Regards,
>> M�rio Gamito
>>
>> On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 16:19, Shackmaster wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Looking for suggestions here...
>>>
>>> I have a mail server setup, that has been running on WBEL rock steady
>>> for about a month now. The problem is that as use has grown, it has
>>> begun to periodically spike and fill the T1 pipe that it sits on. We
>>> plan to move the server onto an OC3 Sept 1st, but would like to rate
>>> limit the traffic in the meantime.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a suggestion? Ideally I would like to rate limit
>>> SMTP (ports 25 & 3535) seperately from POP (110 & 995).
>>>
>>>
>>> -- Ladar
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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