On 2020-05-11 21:45, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 5/11/20 9:28 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 2020-05-11 20:39, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> And now you are paying the memory, cpu, etc. cost of having postfix running >> Oh, well, I suppose I've never seen an idle postfix take up any noticeable >> CPU time or memory >> on any of my systems. > > How can it not take up memory? It may be swapped out, but there should be > something there watching port 25, at least.
It is rather tiny. Taking up 0.7% of memory in a VM with 1.2G assigned to it. > > It does seem to be event triggered, like a connection to port 25 or whatever > other ports it is configured for. So it would be idling for the post part. > But then when you use it for a simple MDA action, is it written modularly so > you only load what is needed? > > Yeah, not too bad. But to configure postfix for only this function and to > protect against any misuse, is yet something else to do. Misuse? Listening only on 127.0.0.1 by default so only users on the machine it is running can abuse it. :-) > > Plus writing my own script has been fun and educational! ;) Sounds like lots of fun. > > The problem is with cron. I am going to have to drop a note to Vixie; it has > been a couple years since the two of us have had fun sparing... really he is > a great guy, and I learned a lot from him working on IETF mail and dns > workgroups. > Well, since cronie is a fork of vixie-cron he may not have much insight. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
