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

One of the things that irritates me about DiskSuite in Solaris 8 is howhalf-hearted the provisions for automated monitoring and reporting are.I don't necessarily ask that DiskSuite have all of this pre-built, butI would like commands that had output that at least made it relativelyeasy to build this ourselves, and DiskSuite falls flat on this.

Metastat will tell you all of the necessary information, but it does itin a verbose, human-readable format that is sufficiently complicated andunderdocumented that I get