"David F. Skoll" <d...@roaringpenguin.com> wrote: > Andrzej Adam Filip wrote: > >> If you prefer performance perspective: >> It means needless system calls. > > That's a micro-optimization. Have you ever measured SpamAssassin's > performance? Trying to avoid opening 3 or 4 sockets is completely > pointless if you're using any kind of content-filtering at all. > (We've done many performance tests and have a pretty good idea where > the bottlenecks are.)
Anyway SpamAssassin avoids "one socket per one DNS query" it its DNS lookups perl package but the package has not been written for "outside SA" use. If somebody uses SpamAssassin filtering anyway then using its parallel DNS queries mechanism may be a good (but not simple) idea. -- [pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : a...@onet.eu "Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst." -- Thomas Paine _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
