Mqueue.in growing

[martinh at solidstatelogic.com]

Jules

We'll the problem is that SA spews errors (lots of them) and chokes
syslog with them. Hence the whole thing slows downs to a crawl.

People have reported this as 'SA very slow' and this seems to be the
workaround.

It only effects people running perl < 5.8.8 AND the SARE rulsets.

Apparently both the SARE and SA folks are working on a fix. So we should
see a 3.2.1 and new SARE rules at some stage.

The 'workaround' stops all the errors and therefore restores performance
levels, but can have an impact if you are using lots of different
languages and normalising these charsets into the base language.

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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> Martin,
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> How much of a speed difference does this fix make?
>
> martinh at solidstatelogic.com wrote:
> > Mike
> >
> > There's a fair chance you've got hit by the use bytes bug in SA
3.2.0.
> >
> > Find the Message.pm in the perl path for sa 3.2.0
> >
> > Just below "use warnings;" add a newline...
> >
> > use bytes;
> >
> > this should sort the problem as long as your not using the
> > normalize_charset functionality in SA. If you are you're stuffed and
> > will have to go back to 3.1.8.
> >
> > --
> > Martin Hepworth
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> > Solid State Logic
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> >> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Mike Kercher
> >> Sent: 14 May 2007 15:25
> >> To: MailScanner discussion
> >> Subject: RE: Mqueue.in growing
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> >> martinh at solidstatelogic.com <> wrote on Monday, May 14, 2007 9:25
AM:
> >>
> >> : Marcello
> >> :
> >> : What version of perl. There's an issue with SA 3.2.0 and perl <
> >> : 5.8.8, and a workaround....
> >> :
> >> : --
> >>
> >> This is perl, v5.8.5 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
> >>
> >> This is on CentOS 4.4 as well.
> >>
> >> -Mike
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