Re: understanding the why and the wherefore of postscreen

2011-02-17 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:41:04AM -0500, Jerry wrote: > > Scalability. One postscreen process can reject more zombies > > than 1000+ smtpd processes. > > Impressive! I did not realize that it was that efficient. This is easy, one smtpd(8) process handles one connection, on the other hand, one

Re: understanding the why and the wherefore of postscreen

2011-02-17 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:10:58 -0500 (EST) Wietse Venema articulated: > Daniel Bromberg: > > With an emphasis towards handling larger loads in the future, I am > > trying to get a grip on the advantages provided by postscreen as > > opposed to letting smtpd do the filtering "in situ." > > Scalabi

Re: understanding the why and the wherefore of postscreen

2011-02-17 Thread Wietse Venema
Daniel Bromberg: > With an emphasis towards handling larger loads in the future, I am > trying to get a grip on the advantages provided by postscreen as opposed > to letting smtpd do the filtering "in situ." Scalability. One postscreen process can reject more zombies than 1000+ smtpd processes.