Re: Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller

2004-01-28 Thread Dave Watkins
Sebastiaan wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Marcin Owsiany wrote:

Hi!
Forgive me the cross-post, but this is rather urgent for me :-/
Does anyone know if the Debian kernel in woody-proposed-updates (2.4.22)
supports Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller?
Intel's web page says that it is supported by Suse and RH, but they make
a binary driver available for download (megaraid.o). The source is
included, so probablu it the same as in stock kernel, but could anyone
confirm this?
Not sure. I can't find it in the official kernel 2.4.23 (www.kernel.org),
or I am looking over it. What I can find is a driver with the same module
name:
CONFIG_SCSI_MEGARAID:
This driver supports the AMI MegaRAID 418, 428, 438, 466, 762, 490,
467, 471 and 493 SCSI host adapters.
This is the old and very heavily tested driver but lacks features
like clustering.
If you want to compile this driver as a module ( = code which can be
inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt.  The module
will be called megaraid.o.
-
Either this module is compatible with your mega raid, or suse and rh gave
a very poor name.
I have looked to the kernel patches, but I could not find information
about CONFIG_SCSI_MEGARAID, so I assume it is disabled by default.
If you don't need to boot from your controller, you can compile the module
afterwards, otherwise a module isn't good enough and you should compile
your custom kernel before installation.
FYI
This card is HEAVILY based or the LSI reference card that Megaraid uses 
so there is a good chance the standard megaraid driver will work




Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-28 Thread Jose Alberto Guzman
Mark Ferlatte wrote:
Benjamin Sherman said on Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:16:56PM -0600:
 

I've got some machines in nearly the same configuration.  What I ended up
doing was to put an `append="mem=1G"' in the lilo.conf boot stanza for the
kernel I was using, and rebooted the machine in question.
This does reduce the available memory in the machine to 1GB, but solves the
IO problem.  In my case, it was much faster, even though MySQL couldn't
buffer nearly as much as with 4GB.
Thanks, Mark. I will probably try this with 3GB instead of 1GB. Did you try
that?

Yes; it didn't work.
The problem (bug) is that block device IO has to go through buffers that are
below 1GB.  The memory manager doesn't know this, so what happens is that the
IO layer requests a block of memory below 1GB, and the swapout daemon (kswapd)
then runs around like a madman trying to free pages, instead of shuffling pages
that don't need to be below 1GB to higher memory addresses.  Since many of the
pages below 1GB can't be freed (they belong to active programs), the IO
starves.
With 1GB of memory, both the IO layer and the swapout daemon are working with
the same view of memory, so the bug is concealed, and performance is good.
I have heard of people trying 2GB, and having it work, but it didn't for me.
M

 Is this problem specific to the 3ware cards? does anyone know of any 
issues with the Highpoint 1640 SATA RAID cards?

 Any experience or recomendations with these?
 Which is the best SATA raid card for linux at the moment?
 Thanks
 José
PS.
please reply to the list.



Re: Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller

2004-01-28 Thread Dave Watkins
Sebastiaan wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Marcin Owsiany wrote:


Hi!

Forgive me the cross-post, but this is rather urgent for me :-/

Does anyone know if the Debian kernel in woody-proposed-updates (2.4.22)
supports Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller?
Intel's web page says that it is supported by Suse and RH, but they make
a binary driver available for download (megaraid.o). The source is
included, so probablu it the same as in stock kernel, but could anyone
confirm this?
Not sure. I can't find it in the official kernel 2.4.23 (www.kernel.org),
or I am looking over it. What I can find is a driver with the same module
name:
CONFIG_SCSI_MEGARAID:

This driver supports the AMI MegaRAID 418, 428, 438, 466, 762, 490,
467, 471 and 493 SCSI host adapters.
This is the old and very heavily tested driver but lacks features
like clustering.
If you want to compile this driver as a module ( = code which can be
inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt.  The module
will be called megaraid.o.
-

Either this module is compatible with your mega raid, or suse and rh gave
a very poor name.
I have looked to the kernel patches, but I could not find information
about CONFIG_SCSI_MEGARAID, so I assume it is disabled by default.
If you don't need to boot from your controller, you can compile the module
afterwards, otherwise a module isn't good enough and you should compile
your custom kernel before installation.
FYI

This card is HEAVILY based or the LSI reference card that Megaraid uses 
so there is a good chance the standard megaraid driver will work

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Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders --good ;-)

2004-01-28 Thread Theodore Knab
I am happy that the protocol is so simple.

If it was not for the RFC's, which do not work that well in modern times
where would we work ?

SMTP has been around for a very long time:

"The SMTP specification originally started with the Mail Transfer
Protocol in 1980, evolved into Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) in
1981, and since has been enhanced into the protocol we know today."

Source: http://freebooks.by.ru/view/RedHatLinux6Unleashed/rhl6u065.htm

'Eric Allman' did us all a favor and created a great amount of industry by
drafting and distributing a simple protocol that was so trusting. ;-)

On a more serious note, I met Eric at a LISA conference in Philadelphia 
and a young Debian developer told him
he should modify the protocol, but Eric said he could not for there
are too many applications dependent on it staying the same. He would
probably get sued if he modified now. Email is big business. 
Look at all the money/jobs the trusting protocol created:

1. SPAM 
2. Anti-SPAM Software
3. Email Viruses
4. Anti-virus software
5. Many more people employed in the email business than would be otherwise.


On 28/01/04 18:48 +0100, Tom?s N??ez Lirola wrote:
> Hi
> My smtp server (postfix) was receiving a lot of mails with empty senders  
> ("mail from:<>"), and it sends them as they was from 
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I want to change this behaviour, so I added to 
> main.cf the line 
> 
> 'smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_sender'
> 
> thinking that "<>" is not a fqdn. But after that, postfix still sends them. 
> So 
> I added
> 
> 'smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_sender, 
> reject_unknown_sender_domain'
> 
> but this way I get the same response:
> 
> helo k
> 250 mydomain.com
> mail from:<>
> 250 Ok
> rcpt to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 250 Ok
> data
> 354 End data with .
> fds
> fdsfsf
> fdsfs
> .
> 250 Ok: queued as B4F7C3EFF
> quit
> 221 Bye
> 
> 
> RTFM'ing, I don't find any more option to reject this kind of senders, so I 
> don't know what to do...
> Am I doing anything wrong? Can anyone please help me?
> 
> Thank you very much
> 
> 
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Exim: Different mail retry times depending upon response from remote host...

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to realize that the following 
remote mailer messages give varying degrees of optimism regarding future 
delivery:

   550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
   452 Mailbox full
   452 Insufficient disk space; try again later
   421 Too many concurrent SMTP connections; please try again later.
With the first, you're pretty sure that the problem is *not* going to be 
corrected in the next few days. Meanwhile, the others give you some hope 
in waiting.

Unfortunately, I haven't seen anything in Exim that lets you customize 
it's retry behavior based upon this. It does offer an "error" field in 
the retry section, but it's only for some silly hard-coded failure types.

So, I wrote a little script that goes through all of the msglog files 
and finds good candidates to toss (ie, "No such user", "Account 
Terminated", etc.). With just a day's worth of tweaking the script, I've 
managed to get the pending queue down to about 1/3 of what it was.

But I figured I'd ask... does anybody already have a script for doing 
this (or maybe a better way altogether, since this script has to be 
explicitly run periodically)?

- Joe




Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-28 Thread Jose Alberto Guzman
Mark Ferlatte wrote:
Benjamin Sherman said on Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:16:56PM -0600:
 

I've got some machines in nearly the same configuration.  What I ended up
doing was to put an `append="mem=1G"' in the lilo.conf boot stanza for the
kernel I was using, and rebooted the machine in question.
This does reduce the available memory in the machine to 1GB, but solves the
IO problem.  In my case, it was much faster, even though MySQL couldn't
buffer nearly as much as with 4GB.
Thanks, Mark. I will probably try this with 3GB instead of 1GB. Did you try
that?


Yes; it didn't work.

The problem (bug) is that block device IO has to go through buffers that are
below 1GB.  The memory manager doesn't know this, so what happens is that the
IO layer requests a block of memory below 1GB, and the swapout daemon (kswapd)
then runs around like a madman trying to free pages, instead of shuffling pages
that don't need to be below 1GB to higher memory addresses.  Since many of the
pages below 1GB can't be freed (they belong to active programs), the IO
starves.
With 1GB of memory, both the IO layer and the swapout daemon are working with
the same view of memory, so the bug is concealed, and performance is good.
I have heard of people trying 2GB, and having it work, but it didn't for me.

M


 Is this problem specific to the 3ware cards? does anyone know of any 
issues with the Highpoint 1640 SATA RAID cards?

 Any experience or recomendations with these?

 Which is the best SATA raid card for linux at the moment?

 Thanks

 José

PS.
please reply to the list.
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Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders --good ;-)

2004-01-28 Thread Theodore Knab
I am happy that the protocol is so simple.

If it was not for the RFC's, which do not work that well in modern times
where would we work ?

SMTP has been around for a very long time:

"The SMTP specification originally started with the Mail Transfer
Protocol in 1980, evolved into Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) in
1981, and since has been enhanced into the protocol we know today."

Source: http://freebooks.by.ru/view/RedHatLinux6Unleashed/rhl6u065.htm

'Eric Allman' did us all a favor and created a great amount of industry by
drafting and distributing a simple protocol that was so trusting. ;-)

On a more serious note, I met Eric at a LISA conference in Philadelphia 
and a young Debian developer told him
he should modify the protocol, but Eric said he could not for there
are too many applications dependent on it staying the same. He would
probably get sued if he modified now. Email is big business. 
Look at all the money/jobs the trusting protocol created:

1. SPAM 
2. Anti-SPAM Software
3. Email Viruses
4. Anti-virus software
5. Many more people employed in the email business than would be otherwise.


On 28/01/04 18:48 +0100, Tom?s N??ez Lirola wrote:
> Hi
> My smtp server (postfix) was receiving a lot of mails with empty senders  
> ("mail from:<>"), and it sends them as they was from 
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I want to change this behaviour, so I added to 
> main.cf the line 
> 
> 'smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_sender'
> 
> thinking that "<>" is not a fqdn. But after that, postfix still sends them. So 
> I added
> 
> 'smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_sender, 
> reject_unknown_sender_domain'
> 
> but this way I get the same response:
> 
> helo k
> 250 mydomain.com
> mail from:<>
> 250 Ok
> rcpt to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 250 Ok
> data
> 354 End data with .
> fds
> fdsfsf
> fdsfs
> .
> 250 Ok: queued as B4F7C3EFF
> quit
> 221 Bye
> 
> 
> RTFM'ing, I don't find any more option to reject this kind of senders, so I 
> don't know what to do...
> Am I doing anything wrong? Can anyone please help me?
> 
> Thank you very much
> 
> 
> -- 
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Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Fraser Campbell
On January 28, 2004 12:48 pm, Tomàs Núñez Lirola wrote:

> My smtp server (postfix) was receiving a lot of mails with empty senders  
> ("mail from:<>"), and it sends them as they was from
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I want to change this behaviour, so I added to
> main.cf the line

Bounces are sent from the null sender, blocking such messages is usually a bad 
idea.

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Georgetown, Ontario, Canada   Debian GNU/Linux




Exim: Different mail retry times depending upon response from remote host...

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to realize that the following 
remote mailer messages give varying degrees of optimism regarding future 
delivery:

   550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
   452 Mailbox full
   452 Insufficient disk space; try again later
   421 Too many concurrent SMTP connections; please try again later.
With the first, you're pretty sure that the problem is *not* going to be 
corrected in the next few days. Meanwhile, the others give you some hope 
in waiting.

Unfortunately, I haven't seen anything in Exim that lets you customize 
it's retry behavior based upon this. It does offer an "error" field in 
the retry section, but it's only for some silly hard-coded failure types.

So, I wrote a little script that goes through all of the msglog files 
and finds good candidates to toss (ie, "No such user", "Account 
Terminated", etc.). With just a day's worth of tweaking the script, I've 
managed to get the pending queue down to about 1/3 of what it was.

But I figured I'd ask... does anybody already have a script for doing 
this (or maybe a better way altogether, since this script has to be 
explicitly run periodically)?

- Joe





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Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Fraser Campbell
On January 28, 2004 12:48 pm, Tomàs Núñez Lirola wrote:

> My smtp server (postfix) was receiving a lot of mails with empty senders  
> ("mail from:<>"), and it sends them as they was from
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I want to change this behaviour, so I added to
> main.cf the line

Bounces are sent from the null sender, blocking such messages is usually a bad 
idea.

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Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Michael Loftis

--On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 18:54 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm curious why you say that. I have exim on 3 smtp gateway machines
servicing 11G+ email/day, hundreds of thousands of actual messages,
doing LDAP lookups for routing, and MailScanner/f-prot running on all
the boxes.
FYI we've had serious problems with f-prot -- it chokes up on PDF files, 
going into infinite loop until it times out.

Seriously, I'm not looking for a fight, just info. When I did performance
tests on all the MTAs a few years back, exim beat the crap out of
everything.
Tim
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Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Michael Loftis
It is an RFC requirement to accept <> as a valid MAIL FROM  -- almost all 
bounce messages use this as well as certain other circumstances, to 
indicate they do not wish to receive a bounce message in the event of a 
delivery error.  I don't even think that postfix allows it to be turned off 
at all.

--On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 18:48 +0100 Tomàs Núñez Lirola 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi
My smtp server (postfix) was receiving a lot of mails with empty senders
("mail from:<>"), and it sends them as they was from
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I want to change this behaviour, so I added to
main.cf the line
'smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_sender'
thinking that "<>" is not a fqdn. But after that, postfix still sends
them. So  I added
'smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_sender,
reject_unknown_sender_domain'
but this way I get the same response:
helo k
250 mydomain.com
mail from:<>
250 Ok
rcpt to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
250 Ok
data
354 End data with .
fds
fdsfsf
fdsfs
.
250 Ok: queued as B4F7C3EFF
quit
221 Bye
RTFM'ing, I don't find any more option to reject this kind of senders, so
I  don't know what to do...
Am I doing anything wrong? Can anyone please help me?
Thank you very much
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Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Franz Georg Köhler
On Mi, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:48:54 +0100, TomÃs NÃÃez Lirola <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> RTFM'ing, I don't find any more option to reject this kind of senders, so I 
> don't know what to do...
> Am I doing anything wrong? Can anyone please help me?

You must not reject messages with an empty envelope-from since those are
delivery status notifications (aka "error messages").



Regards,

Franz Georg KÃhler





Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread tps
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:36:29AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> i can't answer your question, but here's some relevant advice for you:
> 
> exim doesn't scale.  if you want performance, switch to postfix.

I'm curious why you say that. I have exim on 3 smtp gateway machines
servicing 11G+ email/day, hundreds of thousands of actual messages,
doing LDAP lookups for routing, and MailScanner/f-prot running on all
the boxes.

Seriously, I'm not looking for a fight, just info. When I did performance
tests on all the MTAs a few years back, exim beat the crap out of
everything.

Tim

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Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Craig Sanders wrote:
i can't answer your question, but here's some relevant advice for you:
exim doesn't scale.  if you want performance, switch to postfix.
 

Yeah... well... I've already moved every other machine I deal with over 
to Courier. I like it because it's one-stop-shopping for all of my mail 
needs (ie, smtp, pop, and imap modules as well as an ssl version of 
each), because it supports authenticated smtp (which I understand Exim4 
does now but too late for me), and also because it has a variety of 
authentication methods.

We just haven't had the time to figure out how to port all of our 
virtual domains over to Courier yet, so we're still using Exim for the 
time being.

- Joe




Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Tomàs Núñez Lirola
Hi
My smtp server (postfix) was receiving a lot of mails with empty senders  
("mail from:<>"), and it sends them as they was from 
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I want to change this behaviour, so I added to 
main.cf the line 

'smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_sender'

thinking that "<>" is not a fqdn. But after that, postfix still sends them. So 
I added

'smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_sender, 
reject_unknown_sender_domain'

but this way I get the same response:

helo k
250 mydomain.com
mail from:<>
250 Ok
rcpt to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
250 Ok
data
354 End data with .
fds
fdsfsf
fdsfs


Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Dale E Martin
> exim doesn't scale.  if you want performance, switch to postfix.

Is there good documentation available for postfix?  Last time I looked I
could not find anything close to the quality of exim's.  I'd be happy if
that has changed though!

Take care,
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Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:23:02PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> The directory was using 17 megs

that really hurts performance on an ext2/ext3 partition.  some other
filesystems (e.g. reiser, xfs) aren't affected so badly by huge directories.

> I'm not talking about the FILES in the directory... I'm talking about 
> the directory ENTRIES (filename, inode number, etc.). I was forced to 
> just say "screw it!" and I mv'd the input and msglog folders to other 
> names and then created new, empty ones so that our mail server wouldn't 
> buckle under the load.
> 
> But anyway, like the subject line says, my real question is: why doesn't 
> Exim ever clean this stuff out itself?

i can't answer your question, but here's some relevant advice for you:

exim doesn't scale.  if you want performance, switch to postfix.

craig




Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Michael Loftis


--On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 18:54 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I'm curious why you say that. I have exim on 3 smtp gateway machines
servicing 11G+ email/day, hundreds of thousands of actual messages,
doing LDAP lookups for routing, and MailScanner/f-prot running on all
the boxes.
FYI we've had serious problems with f-prot -- it chokes up on PDF files, 
going into infinite loop until it times out.

Seriously, I'm not looking for a fight, just info. When I did performance
tests on all the MTAs a few years back, exim beat the crap out of
everything.
Tim

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Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Michael Loftis
It is an RFC requirement to accept <> as a valid MAIL FROM  -- almost all 
bounce messages use this as well as certain other circumstances, to 
indicate they do not wish to receive a bounce message in the event of a 
delivery error.  I don't even think that postfix allows it to be turned off 
at all.

--On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 18:48 +0100 Tomàs Núñez Lirola 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi
My smtp server (postfix) was receiving a lot of mails with empty senders
("mail from:<>"), and it sends them as they was from
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I want to change this behaviour, so I added to
main.cf the line
'smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_sender'

thinking that "<>" is not a fqdn. But after that, postfix still sends
them. So  I added
'smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_sender,
reject_unknown_sender_domain'
but this way I get the same response:

helo k
250 mydomain.com
mail from:<>
250 Ok
rcpt to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
250 Ok
data
354 End data with .
fds
fdsfsf
fdsfs
.
250 Ok: queued as B4F7C3EFF
quit
221 Bye
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Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Joe Emenaker schrieb am 28.01.04 um 22:23 Uhr:
> Here's a question that has always been bugging me.
> 
> Ever since we moved from smail to exim many years ago at my isp, exim 
> never seems to discard messages in the input queue.
> 
> Even though the single retry rule is the stock one (which retrys for 
> something like 4 days), we end up with stuff that is weeks... months 
> old. Periodically, it would get pretty full and we'd notice that there 
> were about 10 queue runners going and so I'd go in and do a "find" and 
> remove anything older than 14 days or so. I *had* to do a find, because 
> doing an "ls" would just sit there an churn for about a half-hour.
> 
> Anyhow, as our customer base has grown and as their e-mail usage has 
> grown, the problem has reached an all-time high. With this SCO DDoS 
> virus going around, I had occasion to go clean out the input queue 
> again.
> 
> The directory was using 17 megs
> 
> I'm not talking about the FILES in the directory... I'm talking about 
> the directory ENTRIES (filename, inode number, etc.). I was forced to 
> just say "screw it!" and I mv'd the input and msglog folders to other 
> names and then created new, empty ones so that our mail server wouldn't 
> buckle under the load.
> 
> But anyway, like the subject line says, my real question is: why doesn't 
> Exim ever clean this stuff out itself?
> 


additional to the other postings something like

ignore_errmsg_errors_after =  16h

is also useful

regards
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Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Franz Georg Köhler
On Mi, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:48:54 +0100, TomÃs NÃÃez Lirola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> RTFM'ing, I don't find any more option to reject this kind of senders, so I 
> don't know what to do...
> Am I doing anything wrong? Can anyone please help me?

You must not reject messages with an empty envelope-from since those are
delivery status notifications (aka "error messages").



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Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread tps
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:36:29AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> i can't answer your question, but here's some relevant advice for you:
> 
> exim doesn't scale.  if you want performance, switch to postfix.

I'm curious why you say that. I have exim on 3 smtp gateway machines
servicing 11G+ email/day, hundreds of thousands of actual messages,
doing LDAP lookups for routing, and MailScanner/f-prot running on all
the boxes.

Seriously, I'm not looking for a fight, just info. When I did performance
tests on all the MTAs a few years back, exim beat the crap out of
everything.

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Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Craig Sanders wrote:

i can't answer your question, but here's some relevant advice for you:

exim doesn't scale.  if you want performance, switch to postfix.
 

Yeah... well... I've already moved every other machine I deal with over 
to Courier. I like it because it's one-stop-shopping for all of my mail 
needs (ie, smtp, pop, and imap modules as well as an ssl version of 
each), because it supports authenticated smtp (which I understand Exim4 
does now but too late for me), and also because it has a variety of 
authentication methods.

We just haven't had the time to figure out how to port all of our 
virtual domains over to Courier yet, so we're still using Exim for the 
time being.

- Joe



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Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Tomàs Núñez Lirola
Hi
My smtp server (postfix) was receiving a lot of mails with empty senders  
("mail from:<>"), and it sends them as they was from 
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I want to change this behaviour, so I added to 
main.cf the line 

'smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_sender'

thinking that "<>" is not a fqdn. But after that, postfix still sends them. So 
I added

'smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_sender, 
reject_unknown_sender_domain'

but this way I get the same response:

helo k
250 mydomain.com
mail from:<>
250 Ok
rcpt to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
250 Ok
data
354 End data with .
fds
fdsfsf
fdsfs
.
250 Ok: queued as B4F7C3EFF
quit
221 Bye


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don't know what to do...
Am I doing anything wrong? Can anyone please help me?

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Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Dale E Martin
> exim doesn't scale.  if you want performance, switch to postfix.

Is there good documentation available for postfix?  Last time I looked I
could not find anything close to the quality of exim's.  I'd be happy if
that has changed though!

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Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Maarten Vink wrote:
Does the output of the "mailq" command provide any useful information 
about these messages? My first guess would be that you're dealing with 
"frozen" messages
Yup. A lot of them are frozen.
If that is the case, have a look at the "timeout_frozen_after" 
setting; this will automatically remove messages after being frozen 
for a certain period.
I'm already using:
   timeout_frozen_after=48h
but that doesn't seem to be doing anything.
- Joe



Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:23:02PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> The directory was using 17 megs

that really hurts performance on an ext2/ext3 partition.  some other
filesystems (e.g. reiser, xfs) aren't affected so badly by huge directories.

> I'm not talking about the FILES in the directory... I'm talking about 
> the directory ENTRIES (filename, inode number, etc.). I was forced to 
> just say "screw it!" and I mv'd the input and msglog folders to other 
> names and then created new, empty ones so that our mail server wouldn't 
> buckle under the load.
> 
> But anyway, like the subject line says, my real question is: why doesn't 
> Exim ever clean this stuff out itself?

i can't answer your question, but here's some relevant advice for you:

exim doesn't scale.  if you want performance, switch to postfix.

craig


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Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Marcin Sochacki
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:23:02PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> Even though the single retry rule is the stock one (which retrys for 
> something like 4 days), we end up with stuff that is weeks... months 
> old. Periodically, it would get pretty full and we'd notice that there 

These messages are probably marked by Exim as "frozen". Search for that
term in Exim's documentation for more info.

You may enable Exim to automatically remove frozen messages after some
period with the following directive:
timeout_frozen_after = 3d

Marcin




Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Joe Emenaker schrieb am 28.01.04 um 22:23 Uhr:
> Here's a question that has always been bugging me.
> 
> Ever since we moved from smail to exim many years ago at my isp, exim 
> never seems to discard messages in the input queue.
> 
> Even though the single retry rule is the stock one (which retrys for 
> something like 4 days), we end up with stuff that is weeks... months 
> old. Periodically, it would get pretty full and we'd notice that there 
> were about 10 queue runners going and so I'd go in and do a "find" and 
> remove anything older than 14 days or so. I *had* to do a find, because 
> doing an "ls" would just sit there an churn for about a half-hour.
> 
> Anyhow, as our customer base has grown and as their e-mail usage has 
> grown, the problem has reached an all-time high. With this SCO DDoS 
> virus going around, I had occasion to go clean out the input queue 
> again.
> 
> The directory was using 17 megs
> 
> I'm not talking about the FILES in the directory... I'm talking about 
> the directory ENTRIES (filename, inode number, etc.). I was forced to 
> just say "screw it!" and I mv'd the input and msglog folders to other 
> names and then created new, empty ones so that our mail server wouldn't 
> buckle under the load.
> 
> But anyway, like the subject line says, my real question is: why doesn't 
> Exim ever clean this stuff out itself?
> 


additional to the other postings something like

ignore_errmsg_errors_after =  16h

is also useful

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Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Maarten Vink
Joe Emenaker wrote:
Here's a question that has always been bugging me.
Ever since we moved from smail to exim many years ago at my isp, exim 
never seems to discard messages in the input queue.

Even though the single retry rule is the stock one (which retrys for 
something like 4 days), we end up with stuff that is weeks... months 
old. Periodically, it would get pretty full and we'd notice that there 
were about 10 queue runners going and so I'd go in and do a "find" and 
remove anything older than 14 days or so. I *had* to do a find, because 
doing an "ls" would just sit there an churn for about a half-hour.
Does the output of the "mailq" command provide any useful information 
about these messages? My first guess would be that you're dealing with 
"frozen" messages. These are messages that exim is unable to send *and* 
can't be returned to the original sender.

If that is the case, have a look at the "timeout_frozen_after" setting; 
this will automatically remove messages after being frozen for a certain 
period.

Regards,
Maarten Vink



Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Maarten Vink wrote:

Does the output of the "mailq" command provide any useful information 
about these messages? My first guess would be that you're dealing with 
"frozen" messages
Yup. A lot of them are frozen.

If that is the case, have a look at the "timeout_frozen_after" 
setting; this will automatically remove messages after being frozen 
for a certain period.
I'm already using:
   timeout_frozen_after=48h
but that doesn't seem to be doing anything.

- Joe



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Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Benjamin Sherman said on Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:16:56PM -0600:
 
> >I've got some machines in nearly the same configuration.  What I ended up
> >doing was to put an `append="mem=1G"' in the lilo.conf boot stanza for the
> >kernel I was using, and rebooted the machine in question.
> >
> >This does reduce the available memory in the machine to 1GB, but solves the
> >IO problem.  In my case, it was much faster, even though MySQL couldn't
> >buffer nearly as much as with 4GB.
> Thanks, Mark. I will probably try this with 3GB instead of 1GB. Did you try
> that?

Yes; it didn't work.

The problem (bug) is that block device IO has to go through buffers that are
below 1GB.  The memory manager doesn't know this, so what happens is that the
IO layer requests a block of memory below 1GB, and the swapout daemon (kswapd)
then runs around like a madman trying to free pages, instead of shuffling pages
that don't need to be below 1GB to higher memory addresses.  Since many of the
pages below 1GB can't be freed (they belong to active programs), the IO
starves.

With 1GB of memory, both the IO layer and the swapout daemon are working with
the same view of memory, so the bug is concealed, and performance is good.

I have heard of people trying 2GB, and having it work, but it didn't for me.

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Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Here's a question that has always been bugging me.
Ever since we moved from smail to exim many years ago at my isp, exim 
never seems to discard messages in the input queue.

Even though the single retry rule is the stock one (which retrys for 
something like 4 days), we end up with stuff that is weeks... months 
old. Periodically, it would get pretty full and we'd notice that there 
were about 10 queue runners going and so I'd go in and do a "find" and 
remove anything older than 14 days or so. I *had* to do a find, because 
doing an "ls" would just sit there an churn for about a half-hour.

Anyhow, as our customer base has grown and as their e-mail usage has 
grown, the problem has reached an all-time high. With this SCO DDoS 
virus going around, I had occasion to go clean out the input queue 
again.

The directory was using 17 megs
I'm not talking about the FILES in the directory... I'm talking about 
the directory ENTRIES (filename, inode number, etc.). I was forced to 
just say "screw it!" and I mv'd the input and msglog folders to other 
names and then created new, empty ones so that our mail server wouldn't 
buckle under the load.

But anyway, like the subject line says, my real question is: why doesn't 
Exim ever clean this stuff out itself?

- Joe



Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-28 Thread Benjamin Sherman
* Is the I/O patch referenced (by Ingo Molnar) available for 2.4.24?
Possibly; it's certainly not merged into 2.4.24.
Can anyone point me to the specific patch?
I've got some machines in nearly the same configuration.  What I ended up doing
was to put an `append="mem=1G"' in the lilo.conf boot stanza for the kernel I
was using, and rebooted the machine in question.
This does reduce the available memory in the machine to 1GB, but solves the IO
problem.  In my case, it was much faster, even though MySQL couldn't buffer
nearly as much as with 4GB.
Thanks, Mark. I will probably try this with 3GB instead of 1GB. Did you 
try that?

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Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Marcin Sochacki
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:23:02PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> Even though the single retry rule is the stock one (which retrys for 
> something like 4 days), we end up with stuff that is weeks... months 
> old. Periodically, it would get pretty full and we'd notice that there 

These messages are probably marked by Exim as "frozen". Search for that
term in Exim's documentation for more info.

You may enable Exim to automatically remove frozen messages after some
period with the following directive:
timeout_frozen_after = 3d

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Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Maarten Vink
Joe Emenaker wrote:

Here's a question that has always been bugging me.

Ever since we moved from smail to exim many years ago at my isp, exim 
never seems to discard messages in the input queue.

Even though the single retry rule is the stock one (which retrys for 
something like 4 days), we end up with stuff that is weeks... months 
old. Periodically, it would get pretty full and we'd notice that there 
were about 10 queue runners going and so I'd go in and do a "find" and 
remove anything older than 14 days or so. I *had* to do a find, because 
doing an "ls" would just sit there an churn for about a half-hour.
Does the output of the "mailq" command provide any useful information 
about these messages? My first guess would be that you're dealing with 
"frozen" messages. These are messages that exim is unable to send *and* 
can't be returned to the original sender.

If that is the case, have a look at the "timeout_frozen_after" setting; 
this will automatically remove messages after being frozen for a certain 
period.

Regards,

Maarten Vink

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Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Benjamin Sherman said on Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:49:24PM -0600:
> So, I have a couple of questions because this box made it to production 
> before the problem was discovered and I can't test as I'd like.
> * If I were to use 64GB HIGHMEM support. Would this problem go away?

Nope.

> * Is the I/O patch referenced (by Ingo Molnar) available for 2.4.24?

Possibly; it's certainly not merged into 2.4.24.

> * Is the patch available individually, if so, where can it be found? I 
> googled quite a bit, but didn't find anything definite.
> 
> Any thoughts or suggestions?

I've got some machines in nearly the same configuration.  What I ended up doing
was to put an `append="mem=1G"' in the lilo.conf boot stanza for the kernel I
was using, and rebooted the machine in question.

This does reduce the available memory in the machine to 1GB, but solves the IO
problem.  In my case, it was much faster, even though MySQL couldn't buffer
nearly as much as with 4GB.

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Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Benjamin Sherman said on Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:16:56PM -0600:
 
> >I've got some machines in nearly the same configuration.  What I ended up
> >doing was to put an `append="mem=1G"' in the lilo.conf boot stanza for the
> >kernel I was using, and rebooted the machine in question.
> >
> >This does reduce the available memory in the machine to 1GB, but solves the
> >IO problem.  In my case, it was much faster, even though MySQL couldn't
> >buffer nearly as much as with 4GB.
> Thanks, Mark. I will probably try this with 3GB instead of 1GB. Did you try
> that?

Yes; it didn't work.

The problem (bug) is that block device IO has to go through buffers that are
below 1GB.  The memory manager doesn't know this, so what happens is that the
IO layer requests a block of memory below 1GB, and the swapout daemon (kswapd)
then runs around like a madman trying to free pages, instead of shuffling pages
that don't need to be below 1GB to higher memory addresses.  Since many of the
pages below 1GB can't be freed (they belong to active programs), the IO
starves.

With 1GB of memory, both the IO layer and the swapout daemon are working with
the same view of memory, so the bug is concealed, and performance is good.

I have heard of people trying 2GB, and having it work, but it didn't for me.

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Re: Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller

2004-01-28 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi,

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Marcin Owsiany wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Forgive me the cross-post, but this is rather urgent for me :-/
>
> Does anyone know if the Debian kernel in woody-proposed-updates (2.4.22)
> supports Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller?
>
> Intel's web page says that it is supported by Suse and RH, but they make
> a binary driver available for download (megaraid.o). The source is
> included, so probablu it the same as in stock kernel, but could anyone
> confirm this?
>
Not sure. I can't find it in the official kernel 2.4.23 (www.kernel.org),
or I am looking over it. What I can find is a driver with the same module
name:

CONFIG_SCSI_MEGARAID:

This driver supports the AMI MegaRAID 418, 428, 438, 466, 762, 490,
467, 471 and 493 SCSI host adapters.

This is the old and very heavily tested driver but lacks features
like clustering.

If you want to compile this driver as a module ( = code which can be
inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt.  The module
will be called megaraid.o.

-

Either this module is compatible with your mega raid, or suse and rh gave
a very poor name.

I have looked to the kernel patches, but I could not find information
about CONFIG_SCSI_MEGARAID, so I assume it is disabled by default.

If you don't need to boot from your controller, you can compile the module
afterwards, otherwise a module isn't good enough and you should compile
your custom kernel before installation.

Greetz,
Sebas



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Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-28 Thread Joe Emenaker
Here's a question that has always been bugging me.

Ever since we moved from smail to exim many years ago at my isp, exim 
never seems to discard messages in the input queue.

Even though the single retry rule is the stock one (which retrys for 
something like 4 days), we end up with stuff that is weeks... months 
old. Periodically, it would get pretty full and we'd notice that there 
were about 10 queue runners going and so I'd go in and do a "find" and 
remove anything older than 14 days or so. I *had* to do a find, because 
doing an "ls" would just sit there an churn for about a half-hour.

Anyhow, as our customer base has grown and as their e-mail usage has 
grown, the problem has reached an all-time high. With this SCO DDoS 
virus going around, I had occasion to go clean out the input queue 
again.

The directory was using 17 megs

I'm not talking about the FILES in the directory... I'm talking about 
the directory ENTRIES (filename, inode number, etc.). I was forced to 
just say "screw it!" and I mv'd the input and msglog folders to other 
names and then created new, empty ones so that our mail server wouldn't 
buckle under the load.

But anyway, like the subject line says, my real question is: why doesn't 
Exim ever clean this stuff out itself?

- Joe



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Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-28 Thread Benjamin Sherman
* Is the I/O patch referenced (by Ingo Molnar) available for 2.4.24?
Possibly; it's certainly not merged into 2.4.24.
Can anyone point me to the specific patch?

I've got some machines in nearly the same configuration.  What I ended up doing
was to put an `append="mem=1G"' in the lilo.conf boot stanza for the kernel I
was using, and rebooted the machine in question.
This does reduce the available memory in the machine to 1GB, but solves the IO
problem.  In my case, it was much faster, even though MySQL couldn't buffer
nearly as much as with 4GB.
Thanks, Mark. I will probably try this with 3GB instead of 1GB. Did you 
try that?

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Re: I/O performance issues on 2.4.23 SMP system

2004-01-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Benjamin Sherman said on Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:49:24PM -0600:
> So, I have a couple of questions because this box made it to production 
> before the problem was discovered and I can't test as I'd like.
> * If I were to use 64GB HIGHMEM support. Would this problem go away?

Nope.

> * Is the I/O patch referenced (by Ingo Molnar) available for 2.4.24?

Possibly; it's certainly not merged into 2.4.24.

> * Is the patch available individually, if so, where can it be found? I 
> googled quite a bit, but didn't find anything definite.
> 
> Any thoughts or suggestions?

I've got some machines in nearly the same configuration.  What I ended up doing
was to put an `append="mem=1G"' in the lilo.conf boot stanza for the kernel I
was using, and rebooted the machine in question.

This does reduce the available memory in the machine to 1GB, but solves the IO
problem.  In my case, it was much faster, even though MySQL couldn't buffer
nearly as much as with 4GB.

M


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Re: Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller

2004-01-28 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi,

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Marcin Owsiany wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Forgive me the cross-post, but this is rather urgent for me :-/
>
> Does anyone know if the Debian kernel in woody-proposed-updates (2.4.22)
> supports Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller?
>
> Intel's web page says that it is supported by Suse and RH, but they make
> a binary driver available for download (megaraid.o). The source is
> included, so probablu it the same as in stock kernel, but could anyone
> confirm this?
>
Not sure. I can't find it in the official kernel 2.4.23 (www.kernel.org),
or I am looking over it. What I can find is a driver with the same module
name:

CONFIG_SCSI_MEGARAID:

This driver supports the AMI MegaRAID 418, 428, 438, 466, 762, 490,
467, 471 and 493 SCSI host adapters.

This is the old and very heavily tested driver but lacks features
like clustering.

If you want to compile this driver as a module ( = code which can be
inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt.  The module
will be called megaraid.o.

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Either this module is compatible with your mega raid, or suse and rh gave
a very poor name.

I have looked to the kernel patches, but I could not find information
about CONFIG_SCSI_MEGARAID, so I assume it is disabled by default.

If you don't need to boot from your controller, you can compile the module
afterwards, otherwise a module isn't good enough and you should compile
your custom kernel before installation.

Greetz,
Sebas



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Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller

2004-01-28 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hi!

Forgive me the cross-post, but this is rather urgent for me :-/

Does anyone know if the Debian kernel in woody-proposed-updates (2.4.22)
supports Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller?

Intel's web page says that it is supported by Suse and RH, but they make
a binary driver available for download (megaraid.o). The source is
included, so probablu it the same as in stock kernel, but could anyone
confirm this?

regards

Marcin
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Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller

2004-01-28 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hi!

Forgive me the cross-post, but this is rather urgent for me :-/

Does anyone know if the Debian kernel in woody-proposed-updates (2.4.22)
supports Intel SRCU42X SCSI RAID contoller?

Intel's web page says that it is supported by Suse and RH, but they make
a binary driver available for download (megaraid.o). The source is
included, so probablu it the same as in stock kernel, but could anyone
confirm this?

regards

Marcin
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