[Gllug] Nice value

[Xander D Harkness]

Stephen Harker wrote:
> Xander D Harkness wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Stig Brautaset wrote:
>>
>>> On Nov 14 2002, Neil wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone tell me what a typically normal/good nice value is,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> um, 0?
>>>
>>>
>>>> and also what value is a time to start loosing one's marbles, quit you
>>>> job, and tour Europe for 6 months.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think you understand the concept of "nice". "nice" won't ever
>>> tell you to quit your job -- it'll leave that to its evil twin, "bad".
>>> How about reading some manpages?
>>>
>>> Stig
>>
>>
>>
>> It is a funny thing really as most of my mail servers are totally over 
>> specified for just relaying mail and sit well below 1
>>
>> I had an outage for half a day and got a load of email at once to 
>> accept, scan for virii and check with spamassassin.  The relays were 
>> sat at about 2-300 for a good while.
>>
>> The only other time I have seen it that high is when I was `testing` a 
>> spammers mail server with about 7-8000 emails.  (I did check that it 
>> was their mail server and not some fools open relay)
> 
> 
> What's the best way to be sure it is their relay? I've often thought 
> about sending a few hundred kernel source tgz's to certain obnoxious 
> people. :-)
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
It was sms spam with a URL, the URL checked out with the offer, with an 
email address for Terms and Conditions (they have to provide T&Cs by 
Law)  The mail relay tracerouted through to their IP block.

Kind regards
Xander


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