Re: Mail server load

16:00 ...

neptune# awk '{print $7}' /var/log/amavisd | sort | uniq -c
285 BAD
1807 BANNED
12289 INFECTED
11731 Passed,
5 SA
1 turned

Here's a normal day:

neptune# cat /var/log/amavisd.o | grep "Aug 17" | awk '{print $7}' | sort
| uniq -c
332 BAD
13 BANNED
938 INFECTED
3792 Passed,

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> > Yesterday you had almost 1 for 1 valid email. By then I think I was getting
> > about 3-4 per valid email but since then it's sky rocketed and it looks more
> > like 30+ per 1 valid message.
>
> FWIW, this is what I see in traffic to an address I've had to abandon
> because of spam:
>
> 488 Aug 8
> 433 Aug 9
> 435 Aug 10
> 426 Aug 11
> 504 Aug 12
> 458 Aug 13
> 469 Aug 14
> 390 Aug 15
> 433 Aug 16
> 371 Aug 17
> 520 Aug 18
> 36473 Aug 19
> 35808 Aug 20
>
> It's about 3pm local time here, so by midnight the stat for today will
> probably be nearly double yesterday's total.
>
> The spam traffic had been around 2K/day at the beginning of the year,
> but tapered off to around 500 as you see above. This spike is ten times
> the highest I've seen before. If I were actually downloading this crap,
> and not rejecting it at the SMTP handshake, my DSL line would be
> saturated :-(
>
> regards, tom lane
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