MailScanner ANNOUNCE: Stable 4.49 released -- faster!

[Rabellino Sergio]

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Julian Field wrote:

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>On 5 Jan 2006, at 09:18, Rabellino Sergio wrote:
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>>shuttlebox wrote:
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>>>On 1/4/06, *Rabellino Sergio* <rabellino at di.unito.it  
>>><mailto:rabellino at di.unito.it>> wrote:
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>>>    We've sendmail 8.13.3, with mcafee/clamav/sa ona Solaris 9 /4- 
>>>cpu/
>>>    Sun-Fire-V440.
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>>>    I changed only the release of MS, without changing any  
>>>configuration
>>>    parameter; the cpu load average
>>>    has changed from 2.5/3 to 1.2/1.6.
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>>>    It seems to be really faster than previous MS.
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>>>Have you looked at the delay times in the logs from Sendmail? Do  
>>>you see a similar decrease there?
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>>I've investigated in the syslog, but the delay is strictly  
>>connected to the batch delay, so I do not understand how I can see  
>>a real speed-up if most of the delay is directly accountable  to  
>>the batch waiting.
>>(maybe i'm wrong)
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>Sorry, but I think you are. There is no "batch waiting" delay. That  
>would have been silly. When a child worker process looks at the queue  
>(each child does it every second or so, and there are lots of  
>children running) it always takes whatever complete messages are  
>there, regardless of the fact that there may only be 1.
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Received !

I've checked the logs :  the delay is substantially unchanged, the 
values are between 25-40 secs (I've 2 viruses check, so i'm expecting a 
delay, but this is too high ??).

Bye.

-- 
Dott. Mag. Sergio Rabellino 

 Technical Staff
 Department of Computer Science
 University of Torino (Italy)

http://www.di.unito.it/~rabser
Tel. +39-0116706701
Fax. +39-011751603

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