Re: Mail server load

holy S**T!!

The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> 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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