On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 02:56:44PM -0700, Vernon Schryver wrote: > > From: Gary Mills > > > Reverting to the old configuration brought it back to normal. I'm > > using dcc-1.3.31. Might this work better in a later version? > > The next version, 1.3.46, will be more agressive in shutting down > unneeded helper processes. It will also have -Bset:maxjobs=X to override > the default limit on the number of helper processes. The default is > the same as the -j value. > > I think the current version, 1.3.45, has some fixes related to helpers > waiting too long for DNS answers.
I'll give that a try soon. > I don't understand why the load average on the system would be significantly > increased by the dccm DNS helper processes. All they do is call the DNS > resolver library. Going from 1 sendmail process plus 1 dccm thread to > 1 sendmail process plush 1 dccm thread plus 1 dccm/DNS process does not > sound like a prescription for a 12X increase in load average since only > one of the 2 or 3 mechanisms will be runable at any time. I don't understand either. I'll keep a closer eye on it next time I do some testing. > Do you have any machinery that might speed up DNS blacklist lookups > such as rndsbl? Yes, I'm running that. -- -Gary Mills- -Unix Support- -U of M Academic Computing and Networking- _______________________________________________ DCC mailing list [email protected] http://www.rhyolite.com/mailman/listinfo/dcc
