Re: spamass-milter dies under heavy load

[Matt Cramer]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Dan Nelson wrote:

> If your HP-UX boxes are your mail servers and the Linux boxes are your
> spamassassin servers, you want to put spamass-milter on the HP-UX box,
> and edit the SPAMC define in config.h to "spamc -d linuxhost".
> Theoretically, you could run `` SPAMC="spamc -d linuxhost" ./configure ''
> but for some reason that doesn't work.  And I just figured out why :)
> Next release you will be able to do that.

Well actually that didn't work either.  I had to go into the
spamass-milter.cpp code and change where it lists arguments to the SPAMC
define.  I just hard-coded it to my executable with the right flag for the
remote host.  Putting the string "/usr/bin/spamc -d linuxhost" into
config.h, config.status, and the Makefile did not work.  They caused me to
get the following error in the log:

Sep 23 14:40:21 spamass-milter[21303]: mlfi_header: enter
Sep 23 14:40:21 spamass-milter[21303]: ::output enter
Sep 23 14:40:21 spamass-milter[21303]: polling
Sep 23 14:40:21 spamass-milter[21303]: poll returned 2
Sep 23 14:40:21 spamass-milter[21303]: poll says I can read
Sep 23 14:40:21 spamass-milter[21303]: ::read_pipe enter
Sep 23 14:40:21 spamass-milter[21303]: ::read_pipe exit
Sep 23 14:40:21 spamass-milter[21303]: poll says I can write
Sep 23 14:40:21 spamass-milter[21303]: write error: No such file or directory
Sep 23 14:40:21 spamass-milter[21303]: mlfi_header: exit


I am interested to see if this configuration (with spamc->spamd over the
network rather than sendmail->spamass-milter) improves the ability to
perform under load.

Thanks for the help.


Matt

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