[Gllug] Nice value

[Stephen Harker]

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



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