On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:04:27PM +1000, Adam Goryachev wrote: > So, is there some method to tell perl, if you run out of memory, give me a > signal so I can fail nicely instead of just exiting.
Not without using malloc - pre-allocating memory before you start filling it. > Yes, it does, but I tend to prefer to know when something goes wrong, so my > monitoring threshold for disk space is around 20% full, (because normal is > around 10% full) so I see these things when they happen. Also, it is made > worse because some mail servers see a tempfail and will immediately retry, > instead of waiting a while. (I also noticed a *constant* 64kbps of inbound > bandwidth in use over a 4 day period, before I noticed what was happening.... > I suppose the sender only had 64kbps of bandwidth :) > I certainly understand that - but the day I rewrite Q-S to worry about malloc is the day it's written in C! :-) But to ask you a question. Every time Q-S ran out of memory, there would have been an error reported via syslog - so you WERE told there was a problem. Here we use swatch to monitor our syslog servers, and they page me whenever Q-S errors show up in the logs. -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
