Re: Mail::OpenDKIM

--On Tuesday, June 14, 2011 12:28 PM -0400 Nigel Horne <njh_at_bandsman.co.uk>
wrote:

>>
>> On 10 Jun 2011, at 16:09, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>>
>>> --On Friday, June 10, 2011 1:35 PM -0400 Nigel Horne
>>> <njh_at_bandsman.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> <http://marc.info/?l=amavis-user&m=130772228532647&w=2>
>>>>
>>>> Which version of Mail::OpenDKIM was this against? A performance
>>>> improvement was noticed and fixed in the most recent version.
>>>
>>>
>>> Mail-OpenDKIM-3230 with an opendkim-2.3.1 library, Perl 5.14.0.
>>>
>>> If you read the updated thread, Mark has included his test program if
>>> you want to try it out.
>>
>
> I've looked into this further.
>
> Mark's example hardly uses the Mail::OpenDKIM module, by which I mean the
> data goes straight through the Mail::OpenDKIM layer with little
> processing; most of the time he measures is spent within the OpenDKIM
> library. It is therefore better for one of the OpenDKIM library
> maintainers to talk about benchmark issues than me.
>
> His comment is true, you get more performance out of the OpenDKIM library
> if you store the data in large chunk then call dkim_chunk() on a large
> amount of data, than call dkim_chunk lots of times on small amounts of
> data. There is a memory hit using that method, but not so much that
> would matter. Again the question of the best way to use OpenDKIM is a
> question for the maintainers of that library than for Mail::OpenDKIM's
> maintainer.
>
> I know that the above sounds like I'm saying "not my fault" as though I'm
> copping out (something which I *hate* when others do!). I did look into
> the issue, and will continue so to do in case I've missed something, but
> at the moment there is nothing more that I can do because I don't believe
> that the fault lies within Mail::OpenDKIM, it is for the others I
> mentioned above to help you and I suggest that you ask them for help.

Hi Nigel,

Thanks for the thorough investigation. :)

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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