Re: qpsmtpd performance

2008-03-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Charlie Brady wrote: Forkserver spawns and forks a bunch of qpsmtpd processes ahead of time instead of the shell having to spawn a new perl process each time a connection comes in. Not quite - that's prefork :-) Forkserver forks on every connection, but has the perl code pre-parsed in

Re: qpsmtpd performance

2008-03-14 Thread Charlie Brady
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Matt Sergeant wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Bryan Scott wrote: Forkserver spawns and forks a bunch of qpsmtpd processes ahead of time instead of the shell having to spawn a new perl process each time a connection comes in. Not quite - that's prefork :-) Forkserver for

Re: qpsmtpd performance

2008-03-12 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Bryan Scott wrote: Forkserver spawns and forks a bunch of qpsmtpd processes ahead of time instead of the shell having to spawn a new perl process each time a connection comes in. Not quite - that's prefork :-) Forkserver forks on every connection, but has the perl code p

Re: qpsmtpd performance

2008-03-12 Thread Bryan Scott
Michael Salbinger wrote: hi, thanks a lot, we installed forkserver and now, everything is nice, i am only wondering, why the step between normal operation without forkserver and then extreme high load, is so big... maybe the spam got more. now the box is having a load from 0.50 to 2. thats very

qpsmtpd performance

2008-03-12 Thread Michael Salbinger
hi, thanks a lot, we installed forkserver and now, everything is nice, i am only wondering, why the step between normal operation without forkserver and then extreme high load, is so big... maybe the spam got more. now the box is having a load from 0.50 to 2. thats very nice! regards m. -- __

Re: qpsmtpd performance

2008-03-11 Thread Matt Sergeant
On 11-Mar-08, at 5:00 PM, Juerd Waalboer wrote: Matt Sergeant skribis 2008-03-11 16:01 (-0400): Compaq (HP) G3. Dual Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz (so 4 CPUs under hyperthreading). Load is spread across 4 mail servers (...) Impressive; must have been nice to design the setup.. Thanks for the

Re: qpsmtpd performance

2008-03-11 Thread Juerd Waalboer
Matt Sergeant skribis 2008-03-11 16:01 (-0400): > Compaq (HP) G3. > Dual Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz (so 4 CPUs under hyperthreading). > Load is spread across 4 mail servers (...) Impressive; must have been nice to design the setup.. Thanks for the description. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind

Re: qpsmtpd performance

2008-03-11 Thread Matt Sergeant
On 11-Mar-08, at 3:10 PM, Juerd Waalboer wrote: Matt Sergeant skribis 2008-03-11 15:11 (-0400): On 11-Mar-08, at 1:53 PM, Jens Weibler wrote: I can't imagine that you've so much spam connections at the same time. Concurrency on our (qpsmtpd-async) spamtrap goes up to 3000 several times a day

Re: qpsmtpd performance

2008-03-11 Thread Juerd Waalboer
Matt Sergeant skribis 2008-03-11 15:11 (-0400): > On 11-Mar-08, at 1:53 PM, Jens Weibler wrote: > >I can't imagine that you've so much spam connections at the same time. > Concurrency on our (qpsmtpd-async) spamtrap goes up to 3000 several > times a day. I've seen it hit 10k. What kind of machin

Re: qpsmtpd performance

2008-03-11 Thread Matt Sergeant
On 11-Mar-08, at 1:53 PM, Jens Weibler wrote: I can't imagine that you've so much spam connections at the same time. Concurrency on our (qpsmtpd-async) spamtrap goes up to 3000 several times a day. I've seen it hit 10k. Be thankful if you're NOT getting that sort of concurrency :-) Matt.

Re: qpsmtpd performance

2008-03-11 Thread Jens Weibler
Michael Salbinger wrote: my box is running with a load average of 40. there are mostly 100 to 140 tcpserver qpsmtpd connections. most of them spambots. the smtp dialog is very slow, up to 1-2 minutes each. i am reading all day long but nothing seems to help. Have you checked your DNS setup? O

Re: qpsmtpd performance

2008-03-11 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Mar 11, 2008, at 9:11 AM, Michael Salbinger wrote: my box is running with a load average of 40. there are mostly 100 to 140 tcpserver qpsmtpd connections. most of them spambots. Did you try qpsmtpd-forkserver instead of running under tcpserver? - ask -- http://develooper.com/ - http://

qpsmtpd performance

2008-03-11 Thread Michael Salbinger
Hi there, my box is running with a load average of 40. there are mostly 100 to 140 tcpserver qpsmtpd connections. most of them spambots. the smtp dialog is very slow, up to 1-2 minutes each. i am reading all day long but nothing seems to help. cpu: 3ghz x2 ram: 2gb qpsmtpd 0.40 (same with 0.32)