Milter-greylist

Hi

I'll be releasing milter-greylist 1.6 soon, but before I'd like two
caveats to be documented:  

1) On Solaris, it's impossible to open more than 256 streams when
building milter-greylist using the 32 bit ABI (solution: use the 64 bit
ABI)
2) On Solaris, the memory usage is huge (solution: apply a patch to
Solaris) 

Could the people that encountered these problems (Matthieu Herrb and
James Sutherland) contribute a few lines for the README file to document
the issues and the workarounds? 

I'll add them to a new section 9: "known problems", and I'll shift
todays section 9 and 10 to 10 and 11.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
Il y a 10 sortes de personnes dans le monde: ceux qui comprennent 
le binaire et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas.
manu@...

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 03:29:57PM +0100, manu@... wrote:
> 1) On Solaris, it's impossible to open more than 256 streams when
> building milter-greylist using the 32 bit ABI (solution: use the 64 bit
> ABI)
> 2) On Solaris, the memory usage is huge (solution: apply a patch to
> Solaris) 

	The obvious solution is to use a real Unix operating system and
to give up using Solaris :-)

	Just kidding :-)

		R\ufffdmy

manu@... wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'll be releasing milter-greylist 1.6 soon, but before I'd like two
> caveats to be documented:  
> 
> 1) On Solaris, it's impossible to open more than 256 streams when
> building milter-greylist using the 32 bit ABI (solution: use the 64 bit
> ABI)
> 2) On Solaris, the memory usage is huge (solution: apply a patch to
> Solaris) 
> 
> Could the people that encountered these problems (Matthieu Herrb and
> James Sutherland) contribute a few lines for the README file to document
> the issues and the workarounds? 

On Solaris 2.8, milter-greylist may grow out of memory pretty quickly 
due to some bugs in the pthread nsl and socket libraries. It is strongly 
recommended that you install the latest revision of patch 108993 (sparc) 
or 108994 (x86). Solaris 9 and later don't seem to be affected.
Solaris patches are available from <http://sunsolve.sun.com/>


-- 
Matthieu Herrb