quick reboot of all boxes at 1AM EST

I'm rebooting all machines in 90 mins (around 1AM EST) minutes for a linux kernel upgrade. Shouldn't take more than a minute or two.

working on mercury (again)

Despite my best efforts, Mercury is still getting slammed with extremely high loads.

I've hired a part time Linux consultant to help. His name is Harry Roberts [http://codeb.us/] and he's already hard at work.

In fact, he quickly discovered that SpamAssassin is basically overloading the hard drive with all the IO work it does updating its Bayesian filters.

As an immediate fix, he's working on moving all the .spamassassin directories on mercury to the second hard drive. We're also looking into a centralized Bayesian database for users who don't train their filters individually.

Hopefully this should lead to some major performance improvements sometime today.

Thanks for your patience.

working on mercury

Mercury is experiencing extremely heavy loads, causing delays with both web and mail. I'm aware of the problem and am working on it.

update The problems were sendmail related and seem to have been caused by several bad forwarding addresses. I tracked these down and fixed them, and Mercury is once again running smoothly.