Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 08:04:09 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: processing incoming mail messages (FreshPorts 2) Message-ID: <200012181903.IAA19036@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012181224010.71411-100000@mothra.ecs.csus.edu> References: <200012181853.HAA18954@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>
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On 18 Dec 2000, at 12:26, Joseph Scott wrote: > On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Dan Langille wrote: > > # > Then my original answer should have simply been, find a box that > # > will host FreshPorts that can take the load of processing 5000 commit > # > mails in a minute. :-) > # > # Good idea! > # > # Sorry, but after reading my own message, I've seen it's ambiguous. > # > # In my previous message, by "process the queue as soon as a new > # message arrives", I was referring to the procmail scenario mentioned in > # a prior message. That is, have procmail deliever each email to a > # separate file, and process *that* file into FreshPorts as soon as it > # arrives. In that context, the "queue" is the files on disk. With this > # strategy, I'm sure a P100 could handle things. > > Sounds like you are saying that the MTA is the problem then. From > my original reading and ideas of what FreshPorts does, the problem was > having 100 copies of the import perl script running at the same time. In > the situation where you are still processing as they come, only files > instead of from the MTA, you will still end up with 100 copies of the > import script running at once. Not in the planned scenario. After procmail delivers the message to file, it notifies a process that there's a new msg in the queue (I'm told kqueue might help here). That process (the Mail Munger) will process the messages one at a time. Only one instance of the Mail Munger occurs. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/ NZ ADSL - http://www.unixathome.org/adsl/ NZ Broadband - http://www.unixathome.org/broadband/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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