Subject: Re: Problems trying to debug pkgsrc/mail/milter-greylist
To: None <port-sparc64@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 12/07/2007 12:21:16
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:41:04PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:21:53PM +0000, S.P.Zeidler wrote:
> > FWIW, milter-greylist is as crashy on NetBSD/amiga as it is on sparc64;
> > it's not specific to port.
> 
> I think that it actually is a problem specific to various ports.
> 
> I'm running it on two NetBSD-i386 mail servers which handle over ten thousand
> SMTP connections per day. "milter-greylist" is running since the last
> reboot respectively the last upgrade of the package.
> 
> NetBSD-amiga is just another port where the SA based threads don't
> work very well.

Users on the "milter-greylist" mailing list have confirmed that it works
fine under Solaris SPARC (handling over a hundred thousand e-mails per day).

My conclusion is that "milter-greylist" is just a good regression test
for a POSIX thread implementation.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/