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Re: [milter-greylist] crashing under heavy load

2005-11-19 by Emmanuel Dreyfus

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:14:16PM -0600, Ken Serrine wrote:
> The milter crashed twice more on two different machines, so I switched 
> to using internet sockets.  There have not been anymore crashes.  I've 
> had this issue with a different milter in the past, so I'm sure it's 
> nothing to do with the milter.

Probably a bug in libmilter.

> Also, I figured out why the milter was crashing on reloading the 
> greylist.conf.  The timing was such that the milter was dumping the 
> memory at the same time it noticed that I made changes to 
> greylist.conf.  In that case, the milter crashes.

This suggests we miss a lock somewhere. I can't see how a config
reload can break a dump. Can you post a backtrace?

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu@...

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