Re: startTLS with postfix under load

2008-08-09 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Sunday, August 10, 2008 2:31 PM +1000 James Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Quanah. I am using Mac OS X 10.4.11 for my Postfix and Courier-Auth server. I'm often running out of resources, despite changing things based on many google searches! I do not have either of the files yo

Re: startTLS with postfix under load

2008-08-09 Thread James Brown
Thanks Quanah. I am using Mac OS X 10.4.11 for my Postfix and Courier-Auth server. I'm often running out of resources, despite changing things based on many google searches! I do not have either of the files you mention. Should I simply create them? Thanks, James. On 10/08/2008, at 4:5

Re: startTLS with postfix under load

2008-08-09 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Saturday, August 09, 2008 8:27 AM -0400 Wietse Venema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To help other people who run into this same system-specific gotcha, would you share the solution with the mailing list? I really can't explore the gory kernel details of every system myself. Certainly! :)

Re: startTLS with postfix under load

2008-08-09 Thread Wietse Venema
Quanah Gibson-Mount: > --On Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:57 AM -0400 Victor Duchovni > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Your mental model of this is flawed. Postfix runs hundreds of cleanup > > servers, hundreds of smtpd servers, further-more, if tables are not > > carefully defined to have identic

Re: startTLS with postfix under load

2008-08-08 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:57 AM -0400 Victor Duchovni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Your mental model of this is flawed. Postfix runs hundreds of cleanup servers, hundreds of smtpd servers, further-more, if tables are not carefully defined to have identical values for connection-related para

Re: proxymap as default (was: startTLS with postfix under load)

2008-07-24 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 08:22:54PM +0200, mouss wrote: > that said, I don't think this is important. I personally use things like > > maps_directory = ${config_directory}/maps > cdb_prefis = cdb:${maps_directory}/db > pcre_prefix = pcre:${maps_directory}/pcre > sql_repfix = proxy:mysql:${maps_dir

Re: proxymap as default (was: startTLS with postfix under load)

2008-07-24 Thread mouss
Wietse Venema wrote: mouss: Victor Duchovni wrote: [snip] Listen carefully when Wietse and I recommend "proxymap". Step 1: migrate to "proxy:ldap:" tables Step 2: debug any problems that remain after Step 1. a question here. is there a reason why proxymap wouldn't be the default (so people

Re: proxymap as default (was: startTLS with postfix under load)

2008-07-24 Thread Wietse Venema
mouss: > Victor Duchovni wrote: > > [snip] > > Listen carefully when Wietse and I recommend "proxymap". > > > > Step 1: migrate to "proxy:ldap:" tables > > > > Step 2: debug any problems that remain after Step 1. > > > > a question here. is there a reason why proxymap wouldn't be the defaul

Re: proxymap as default (was: startTLS with postfix under load)

2008-07-24 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 07:48:51PM +0200, mouss wrote: > Victor Duchovni wrote: > >[snip] > >Listen carefully when Wietse and I recommend "proxymap". > > > >Step 1: migrate to "proxy:ldap:" tables > > > >Step 2: debug any problems that remain after Step 1. > > a question here. is there a rea

proxymap as default (was: startTLS with postfix under load)

2008-07-24 Thread mouss
Victor Duchovni wrote: [snip] Listen carefully when Wietse and I recommend "proxymap". Step 1: migrate to "proxy:ldap:" tables Step 2: debug any problems that remain after Step 1. a question here. is there a reason why proxymap wouldn't be the default (so people would have to exclude maps i

Re: startTLS with postfix under load

2008-07-24 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:12 PM -0400 Victor Duchovni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 09:50:35AM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:57 AM -0400 Victor Duchovni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your mental model of this is flawed. Postfix run

Re: startTLS with postfix under load

2008-07-24 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 09:50:35AM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > --On Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:57 AM -0400 Victor Duchovni > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Your mental model of this is flawed. Postfix runs hundreds of cleanup > >servers, hundreds of smtpd servers, further-more, if table

Re: startTLS with postfix under load

2008-07-24 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:57 AM -0400 Victor Duchovni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Your mental model of this is flawed. Postfix runs hundreds of cleanup servers, hundreds of smtpd servers, further-more, if tables are not carefully defined to have identical values for connection-related para

Re: startTLS with postfix under load

2008-07-24 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 08:29:27AM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > --On Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:35 AM -0400 Victor Duchovni > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:02:48PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > > > >>We found that if we are using startTLS with postfix, an

Re: startTLS with postfix under load

2008-07-24 Thread Wietse Venema
Quanah Gibson-Mount: > --On Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:39 AM -0400 Wietse Venema > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Quanah Gibson-Mount: > >> --On Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:02 PM -0700 Quanah Gibson-Mount > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > We found that if we are using startTLS with pos

Re: startTLS with postfix under load

2008-07-24 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:02:48PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > We found that if we are using startTLS with postfix, and heavily load > postfix, that it Postfix stops working, even though the LDAP server > continues to accept connections from other clients just fine using > startTLS. He

Re: startTLS with postfix under load

2008-07-24 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:35 AM -0400 Victor Duchovni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:02:48PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: We found that if we are using startTLS with postfix, and heavily load postfix, that it Postfix stops working, even though the LDAP server

Re: startTLS with postfix under load

2008-07-24 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:39 AM -0400 Wietse Venema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quanah Gibson-Mount: --On Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:02 PM -0700 Quanah Gibson-Mount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We found that if we are using startTLS with postfix, and heavily load > postfix, that it Postf