Milter-greylist

Le jeu 13/10/2005 à 09:12, Fredrik Nyberg DC a écrit :
> Matt Kettler wrote:
> > Based on that you're talking about 50 million entries. If you've got a 5-day
> > timeout that's only 10 million attempts per day. For a site with 8,000 users
> > that doesn't seem unreasonable.
> 
> We have around 1 million entries in our greylist database. What really 
> bugs me is that the current 2.3 GB of VmData that milter-greylist is 
> using does not show up in physical memory or swap... it will be 
> interresting to see what happens when the process hits 3 GB, since this 
> is the amount of memory + swap that one of the servers has.
> 
> Could perhaps the kernel (Linux 2.6.9-11.ELsmp, CentOS 4.1) be reporting 
> the memory usage wrong? This problem seems to have started since I began 
> using the mxsync function.
> 
> Time for me to "Use the Source, Luke".
> 
> Cheers,
> Fredrik Nyberg

Storing the md5 of the tuple instead of the tuple itself could be a
solution for a large site and an a new option for milter-greylist.

md5 is only 16 byte long (against  ~ 64) 

md5(Sender IP:Sender e-mail:Recipient e-mail) Time

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