> -----Original Message----- > From: Jochem Maas [mailto:jochem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 3:26 PM > Subject: I'm trying to out perform Martin Norland.... > > in terms of helpfulness and volume of replies to Q's on this list.... > ;-) but it doesn't help that my mails seem to take hours to reach the > list (Martin's keep beating mine to show up). > > is the list-server against me? or do others also see loads of lag? Luck of the draw. I've sent mails that immediately posted to the list, and I've sent mails (like the recent MySQL PK) that took almost 4 hours. No idea where the bottleneck is - maybe just that php.nets mailserver is busy. Backoff algorithms make a larger and larger [but still random] window each failure - the idea being that if 4000 people sending mail simultaneously get failures from overloading the server - everyone calling back in exactly 10 minutes won't help anyone. If we get a collision when we call back, we figure we still have too many and we backoff again. So, if your mail has no problems the first time - it gets through fine. One failure, maybe a half hour. Two, and you're looking at the hours. Semi "Ooh Tee", but I can't say that on this list or it doesn't get posted at all (which, as I've mentioned here before, is stupid). Cheers, - Martin Norland, Database / Web Developer, International Outreach x3257 The opinion(s) contained within this email do not necessarily represent those of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
