Does perl script deamon manage correctly signals ?
-Sympa is a perl script deamon, it handles correctly
any kill -TERM (terminating current message task)
Is interpreted perl powerfull enough ?
-Running on a linux machine with Bi-P2 450 with 512 mega ram,
sympa forks 1.000 sendmail in parallel (150.000 messages perform
per hour) We plan to replace Sendmail by Postfix to
reach some 2.000 or 3.000 // postfix (Sympa leaves
the choice of the mailer (sendmail, postfix or qmail).
In this configuration, the overload due to perl interpreter
is really narrow.
A prototype of WWSympa (a user and admin web interface to sympa)
is currently running on the same machine. It uses FastCGI, so perl
oesn't need to be launched at each http session. This interface
uses nice perl programs such as MhOnarc with good response
time even on the web interface and the mail robot. (concurent
data access between sympa and wwsympa are managed by MySQL or
PostgresQL without any replication of lists' data).
Serge Aumont
