Restart Every Setting Question

[Ugo Bellavance]

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Derek Buttineau [mailto:derek at CSOLVE.NET]
>Envoyé : 10 mars, 2004 16:54
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Restart Every Setting Question
>
>
>Good Day,
>
>This may be a somewhat simple question, and I'm sorry if it's already
>been covered, I did a quick look through the documentation and archives
>and couldn't find anything that answered my question.
>
>My Question really is whether there's any information 
>regarding a 4 hour
>restart time vs something much much shorter, along the lines of a 5-15
>minute restart time.  I believe there would be performance issues, but
>am not completely sure.
>
>The situation is, in our installation per domain/per user 
>configurations
>for scanning/whitelist/blacklist are updated when the child spawns, and
>the logging done with the child dies.  We have a client who is trigger
>happy with their deny list, and is not satisified waiting for the
>program to update itself (I currently have it set to 3600 seconds).
>What I need to know to satisfy my superiors, is exactly would be the
>tradeoff to lowering this?

Well if you can afford to load about 60 Megs of code every 5 minutes, maybe you could do that.
However what you might do is have a script reloading MailScanner instead of restarting it every 5 minutes.  This would have the same effect, without using as much resources.

The original purpose of this setting is to prevent memory leak, not refreshing the config.

>
>Any information would be greatly appreciated.
>
>--
>Regards,
>
>Derek Buttineau
>Internet Systems Administrator
>Compu-SOLVE Technologies Inc.
>Compu-SOLVE Internet Services
>