[rbldnsd] Possible Small Bug

Matthew Sullivan matthew at sorbs.net
Sat Jan 29 00:58:24 MSK 2005


Jeff Chan wrote:

>On Friday, January 28, 2005, 7:40:02 AM, David Hart wrote:
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>>BTW, we added a virtual domain that had been terribly abused. Yesterday
>>rbldnsd rejected close to 3,000 spams without breaking a sweat - never
>>even showing up in "top."
>>    
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>
>FWIW 3000 is nothing.  I don't know what the practical limits for
>rbldnsd are, but I suspect they are 3 or 4 orders of magnitude
>greater, depending on the particular boxen.
>
>  
>

SORBS is running at around 1000 queries per second on the European 
servers and its using around 6% CPU

I've tested it to 2.5k qps and at that time it too 20% of 1 CPU (PIII 
550 Xeon)

Regards,

Mat


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