Re: Stress-dependent server personality

From: Wietse Venema (no email)
Date: Mon Sep 03 2007 - 10:03:52 EDT

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    Tony Earnshaw:
    > Wietse Venema skrev, on 03-09-2007 02:48:
    >
    > [...]
    >
    > > The dynamic "-o stress=yes" setting is simple enough that it could
    > > be implemented as an emergency patch for Postfix 2.3 and earlier.
    >
    > Sounds good. Especially on the ISC/SANS dshield list there is a bunch of
    > people reporting repeated increased hammering from diverse IPs, leading
    > to the MTA striking. They generally don't report what MTA they're using
    > (to them that fact is immaterial, that's not their problem) and the only
    > solution till now is a script to parse the logs and adapt the firewall.
    > For them this might be a good reason for looking at Postfix.
    >
    > My Postfix 2.4.5 site only gets occasional bursts that soon stop.

    Good. I'll keep it really simply then: kick in when Postfix logs
    the "service smtp (25) has reached its process limit" warning, with
    a little extra text for clarification:

        "service \"%s\" (%s) has reached its process limit \"%d\: "
        "new clients may experience noticeable delays"
        "to avoid this condition, increase the process count "
        "in master.cf or reduce the service time per client"
        "you may also make main.cf options dependent on the "
        "existence of a non-empty "stress" parameter value"

    I'll run some tests after doing some "honey do" chores.

            Wietse


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