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Re: [milter-greylist] Is milter-greylist safe in large environments?

2005-06-08 by Steven W. Orr

On Wednesday, Jun 8th 2005 at 10:54 -0400, quoth Dawn Keenan:

=>We're running milter-greylist 1.6 on a cluster of FC1/3 servers (dual
=>processor Dells, 1GB memory) for a user community of about 40,000 and a
=>greylist.db which has about 600,000 entries.  The CPU isn't breaking a
=>sweat and memory usage appears fine, even though we run SpamAssassin and
=>ClamAV on the same servers, but we're running into occasional problems[*]
=>and are debating whether to enable lazyaw as a possible fix.
=>
=>In addition to greylisting, we're using RBLs that turn away about
=>30,000 connections a day.
=>
=>[*] Before someone with a hammer 'fixed' it by staggering daily
=>    restarts of the milter, milter-greylist would occasionally die with
=>    "pthreads can't create process: out of mem".  we also saw "cannot
=>    sync with peer 1.2.3.4:  out of space (1024 entries queued)" from
=>    time to time.

What is lazyaw and where can I find it?

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