Milter-greylist

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@...> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 04:13:08PM -0000, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> > On some servers it comes back to the correct configuration after a few
> > seconds, but on other servers, it takes more than 2 minutes, which is
> > a lot.  We guess it depends on the load on the server.
> (snip)
> > Any ideas?
> 
> I see two potential issues:
> 
> 1) too many threads within milter-greylist, and it's impossible to grab
> the lock and reload the config file before 2 minutes
> 
> 2) too many processes on the system, and milter-greylist waits 2 minutes
> for being schedules
> 
> I'll assume you are in the first situation. How to handle it properly? 
> If you kill the sendmail instances that are talking to a client,
what happens?

What do you mean exactly, do a killall sendmail or a killall -HUP
sendmail after editing the greylist.conf file?