01-Jun-2023

Just the usual – with a little twist

Nothing wrong – again. Spam filter does it’s work, as usual:

PMAS statistics for May
Total messages    :   2783 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   :    106 =   3.8 o/o (Files: 25)
Relay attempts    :    177 =   6.3 o/o (Files: 31)
Accepted by PMAS  :   2500 =  89.8 o/o (Files: 31)
  Handled by explicit rule
         Rejected :   1400 =  56.0 o/o (processed),  50.3 o/o (all)
         Accepted :    225 =   9.0 o/o (processed),   8.0 o/o (all)
  Handled by content
        Discarded :    424 =  16.9 o/o (processed),  15.2 o/o (all)
     Quarantained :    327 =  13.0 o/o (processed),  11.7 o/o (all)
        Delivered :    124 =   4.9 o/o (processed),   4.4 o/o (all)

Twist is that 3 antirelay logfiles seem to be 800 blocks in size: 01-May, 05-May and 13-May, but these were deleted, where they should have been kept for examination. They could all be undeleted using DFU, but I found they were actually < 4 blocks in size, so it's clear why these were deleted. So deleted them, telling me each of them was 800 blocks - allocation size. Not sure what made them that big... Well, the system is a bit slow at times, perhaps this is symptom of something else I have to dig into. However, I will change to the second system some time soon, but I will have to take out the SA5300a card and put it into the other one (or just the cache card, that's broken on the other machine).
New hardware
On the workstation front: The new system worked fine but I ran into shortage of video memory of the RTX3080 card – thought 10Gb would be enough but it wasn’t. So I found RTX4090 card, 24Gb VRAM, got that and installed it instead. Now I may run into similar issues in the future but for now, this will suffice.
The old motherboard – on which the OS is installed on an M2 card – could be placed in the case I had this system originally, added a few hard drives that are now available (No room for them in the new case) and placed my good old GTX1080 in it. Booted from scratch with no issues. As soon as I get my community license for this instance, I will use this to run VMS on x86 on this machine, as a guest on VMWare Player (or Virtual box, not sure what, as for now) to replace the Alphas.