Re: multithreaded environment ?

From: Todd Lyons <tlyons_at_ivenue.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 05:34:41 -0800

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy <msk_at_cloudmark.com> wrote:
> The last time I profiled opendkim when signing, the biggest time sink was libcrypto.  It doesn't go to disk with your configuration except at startup, so all the analysis and encryption is happening in-memory.  In that case, running in multiple processes wouldn't help much.

...unless he's got two quad core processors and opendkim is using only
one core, leaving the other 7 sitting basically idle. But that's
purely conjecture. On my dkim signing systems, there is still far
more cpu going to the spam and virus scanning than to opendkim during
signing.

Regards... Todd

-- 
If Americans could eliminate sugary beverages, potatoes, white bread,
pasta, white rice and sugary snacks, we would wipe out almost all the
problems we have with weight and diabetes and other metabolic
diseases. -- Dr. Walter Willett, Harvard School of Public Health
Received on Thu Dec 01 2011 - 13:34:49 PST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Thu Dec 01 2011 - 14:50:03 PST