# Ruby-talk lag? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [July 28, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-talk-lag/100391 "2006-07-28T18:39:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Charles\_O\_Nutter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Charles\_O\_Nutter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Charles_O_Nutter)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-talk-lag/100391/1 "2006-07-28T18:39:49Z")
Has anyone been seeing high lag in getting ruby-talk mail? Today it’s taking several hours for mail to make it through the system, and I’ve heard from others they sometimes wait a half-day to see ruby-talk mail come around. Anything that can be done? ---
**Author:** ![Charles\_O\_Nutter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Charles\_O\_Nutter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Charles_O_Nutter)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-talk-lag/100391/2 "2006-07-28T18:46:26Z")
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Charles O Nutter wrote: > Has anyone been seeing high lag in getting ruby-talk mail? Today it’s taking > several hours for mail to make it through the system, and I’ve heard from > others they sometimes wait a half-day to see ruby-talk mail come around. > Anything that can be done? I consistently see very little latency between when I send an email to the list and when I see it propagated back into my mailbox. Kirk H. ---
**Author:** ![Charles\_O\_Nutter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Charles\_O\_Nutter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Charles_O_Nutter)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-talk-lag/100391/3 "2006-07-28T18:46:48Z")
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Charles O Nutter wrote: > > > Has anyone been seeing high lag in getting ruby-talk mail? Today it’s > > taking > > several hours for mail to make it through the system, and I’ve heard from > > others they sometimes wait a half-day to see ruby-talk mail come around. > > Anything that can be done? > > I consistently see very little latency between when I send an email to the > list and when I see it propagated back into my mailbox. 40 seconds. It took 40 seconds from when I sent this message to when the mailing list had propagated back to me. Kirk H. ---
**Author:** ![Charles\_O\_Nutter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Charles\_O\_Nutter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Charles_O_Nutter)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-talk-lag/100391/4 "2006-07-28T19:00:23Z")
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 01:45:06AM +0900, Daniel B. wrote: > > the list and when I see it propagated back into my mailbox. > > It does seem to be sporadic. It’s _usually_ very quick, though I have > noticed a few instances this week where it took 20 minutes or so for my > email to make the list. I haven’t seen lags of more than about 11 minutes since I resubscribed on the 25th – and six minutes of that might be due to the fact that my email aggregation has a six-minute polling cycle. Still, five minutes seems a bit long as a verified minimum time it took for a message to deliver out of a three-day sample, all things considered. ---
**Author:** ![Charles\_O\_Nutter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Charles\_O\_Nutter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Charles_O_Nutter)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-talk-lag/100391/5 "2006-07-28T19:37:36Z")
On Jul 28, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Chad P. wrote: > Still, five minutes seems a bit long as a verified minimum time it > took for a message to deliver out of a three-day sample, all things > considered. Obviously this doesn’t apply if you are just posting to the list and waiting to receive your message back, but part of the gateway operation (the script that mirrors messages between newsgroup and mailing list) is a cron job triggered every five minutes. So, if you post to the newsgroup side and it takes five minutes or more to hit the mailing list, this would be expected behavior. James Edward G. II ---
**Author:** ![Charles\_O\_Nutter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Charles\_O\_Nutter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Charles_O_Nutter)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-talk-lag/100391/6 "2006-07-28T18:46:58Z")
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Charles O Nutter wrote: > > > Has anyone been seeing high lag in getting ruby-talk mail? Today it’s > > taking > > several hours for mail to make it through the system, and I’ve heard from > > others they sometimes wait a half-day to see ruby-talk mail come around. > > Anything that can be done? > > I consistently see very little latency between when I send an email to > the list and when I see it propagated back into my mailbox. It does seem to be sporadic. It’s _usually_ very quick, though I have noticed a few instances this week where it took 20 minutes or so for my email to make the list. - Dan This communication is the property of Qwest and may contain confidential or privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the communication and any attachments. ---
**Author:** ![Charles\_O\_Nutter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Charles\_O\_Nutter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Charles_O_Nutter)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-talk-lag/100391/7 "2006-07-28T21:28:31Z")
It looks like it may be lag on a server in my return path; thanks for the numbers though, I’ll try to sort it out on my end. ---
**Author:** ![Charles\_O\_Nutter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Charles\_O\_Nutter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Charles_O_Nutter)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-talk-lag/100391/8 "2006-07-28T20:26:50Z")
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 02:35:54AM +0900, James Edward G. II wrote: > post to the newsgroup side and it takes five minutes or more to hit > the mailing list, this would be expected behavior. I haven’t used the newsgroup side for either posting or receiving, though. ---
**Author:** ![Charles\_O\_Nutter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Charles\_O\_Nutter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Charles_O_Nutter)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-talk-lag/100391/9 "2006-07-28T22:23:27Z")
FYI, I suspected it might be a DNS-related issue, and it turns out it was: one of the spam blackhole lists I was using appears to be having trouble. Ditched them, and things are fine now.