On 28/02/06, Henry Amrhein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/27/06, David Saez Padros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > we are doing a similar thing, but instead of having a log parser we > > directly insert the ip into a mysql database using exim builtin mysql > > support, then every 5 minutes the mysql databse is dumped into a faster > > cdb databse which is used by exim. > > I'm curious. Doesn't a few writes to the relational database take > much longer > than the time gained by reading from the cdb file? I'm not saying this > is a bad technique. I'm just curious if I'm thinking correctly.
That would be my worry, too, along with the (certain) delays and (possible) erroneous results when the MySQL connection isn't available. Hence my use of the log-scraping technique to take the database writes out of the critical path. Peter -- Peter Bowyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1296 768003 VoIP: sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] VoIP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FWD: **275*5048707000 VoipTalk: **473*5048707000 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
