Milter-greylist

Matt Kettler <mkettler@...> wrote:

> Wait.. you think the *regex* is too resource intensive, but advocate using
> RBLs instead?
> 
> Are you completely out of your MIND???!!!
> 
> 
> An RBL is a NETWORK TEST. You have to create a UDP socket, send a request,
> wait for a reply, parse the reply..

That's it: you wait. That means the thread is sleeping and the CPU works
somewhere else. Perhaps in another milter-greylist thread, perhaps in
another process. 

Indeed a DNS lookup increases lattency, but it does not load the CPU as
regexp computation does.

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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