Re: qpsmtpd-forkserver seems awfully slow

2007-09-19 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2007-09-18 11:27:25 -0400, John L wrote: > Well, now I restarted it and the load is a reasonable 3 to 5. Must have > been a spam blast, will have to wait and see if it happens again. > > I see a lot of plugins that read config files in the hook routines. > Seems to me that in forkserver, tha

Re: qpsmtpd-forkserver seems awfully slow

2007-09-18 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, John L wrote: Well, now I restarted it and the load is a reasonable 3 to 5. Must have been a spam blast, will have to wait and see if it happens again. I see a lot of plugins that read config files in the hook routines. Seems to me that in forkserver, that means each for

Re: qpsmtpd-forkserver seems awfully slow

2007-09-18 Thread John L
Well, now I restarted it and the load is a reasonable 3 to 5. Must have been a spam blast, will have to wait and see if it happens again. I see a lot of plugins that read config files in the hook routines. Seems to me that in forkserver, that means each fork will reread the file, and it'd be

Re: qpsmtpd-forkserver seems awfully slow

2007-09-18 Thread John Levine
>> When I did a top command, it was all perl qpsmtpd processes running. Any >> idea what the problem is? > >None without some profiling. But a couple of random things to check - any >chance you have UTF-8 settings in your environment? What version of perl >are you on? Here's the version of per

Re: qpsmtpd-forkserver seems awfully slow

2007-09-18 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, John L wrote: I turned off the qmail-smtpd and added its IP to qpsmtpd, and it went nuts, 90 processes, load averages upwards of 15. I have some custom plugins, a couple that make very cheap UDP calls, to check greylisting and to check whether a rcpt address is valid, a c