Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:17:46 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com> Cc: GuangChun Wen <wen@iisi.co.jp>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cluster service in FreeBSD Message-ID: <14091.41290.616792.926953@trooper.velocet.ca> In-Reply-To: <19990407084054.D1562@socrates.i-pi.com> References: <00b201be809b$ced53cc0$b366b4cb@wen.iisi.co.jp> <19990407084054.D1562@socrates.i-pi.com>
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>>>>> "Kenneth" == Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com> writes: Kenneth> The biggest problem I have had is on a mail server with Kenneth> procmail as a local delivery agent. Procmail wants to have Kenneth> the whole message in memory at once, and people at one of my Kenneth> sites have no concept of file size or transmission time (over Kenneth> 56KB lines), so emailing 50MB documents is a somewhat common Kenneth> event. With a 16MB P120, swap space is a requirement. I Kenneth> added an old 400MB disk as swap space and solved the problem. This is quite a problem. At one of my sites, I had occaision that 10-20 multi-megabyte deliveries would occur simultaniously. If you're using procmail, your only choice at that point is more RAM --- which has led me to be procmail shy on my production machines. Mail's only going to get bigger. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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