From 894a6bd8650c220748218874e5f4079ee063695b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tony Finch Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:29:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a small note about the performance implications of complicated ratelimit setups. --- doc/doc-txt/NewStuff | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index 793887065..6ef8f2855 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.53 2005/06/27 14:34:33 ph10 Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.54 2005/06/29 14:29:05 fanf2 Exp $ New Features in Exim -------------------- @@ -235,6 +235,14 @@ TF/04 There is a new ratelimit ACL condition which can be used to measure cdb {DB/ratelimits.cdb} \ {$value} {RATELIMIT} } + Warning: if you have a busy server with a lot of ratelimit tests, + especially with the per_rcpt option, you may suffer from a performance + bottleneck caused by locking on the ratelimit hints database. Apart from + making your ACLs less complicated, you can reduce the problem by using a + RAM disk for Exim's hints directory, /var/spool/exim/db/. However this + means that Exim will lose its hints data after a reboot (including retry + hints, the callout cache, and ratelimit data). + TK/01 Added an 'spf' lookup type that will return an SPF result for a given email address (the key) and an IP address (the database): -- 2.25.1