The SMTP frontend died twice late Friday night, to my irritation.That said, this week we:

• got 9,806 messages from 186 different IP addresses.
• handled 15,551 sessions from 916 different IP addresses.
• received something over 204,995 connections from at least58,611 different IP addresses.
• hit a highwater of at least 6 connections being checked at once.

The message count is down dramatically from last week because this week

Courtesy of Pete Zaitcev ,here's a great example of what happens when optimizing compilers aren'tthread aware.

Start with code of the form:

struct a b;

b.pos = *ppos;ret = foo(&b, ..., b.pos);

Modern versions of gcc 4 on x86 will optimize the function call into:

ret = foo(&b, ..., *ppos );

(This is a less stupid optimization than it looks; ppos

That X needs a configuration file less and less makes it more and moreimportant to have your monitor(s) powered on when you're powering on orrebooting a machine, because otherwise X won't be able to get the DDC information it needsto do most of that nice automatic configuration. A side effect of thisis killing off BNC monitor connectors, because you can't do DDC overBNC.

(Yes, I still have a CRT monitor at home, and until recently I was usinga