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Spam::Assassin prefork ala Apache

From:
John Peacock
Date:
July 6, 2007 08:47
Subject:
Spam::Assassin prefork ala Apache
Message ID:
20070706154709.11767.qmail@lists.develooper.com
Saw this mentioned on the Jifty dev list:

http://brad.livejournal.com/2329271.html?thread=13756599#t13756599

> Previously we did the "preforked pool of servers all doing blocking
> accept" thing, but that didn't allow scaling of the pool size to deal
> with demand. So instead, I sat down with some of the Apache httpd
> guys, went over how Apache 2 preforking and pool scaling works, and
> came up with a pure-perl implementation. That's what we now use.


Just in case anyone feels like rewriting qpsmtpd-prefork (again)...

John



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