It fixed a problem I had with a particular client we host for.
On 13 May 2005, at 09:56, Ian FREISLICH wrote:
> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> is rate limiting a part of Exim in the meanwhile?
>>
>> If not, did anyone implement such a thing and would be willing to
>> share
>> his / her code?
>>
>> I found an old e-mail in the archives (dated 1999) where someone said
>> he'd
>> written some perl script to keep analyzing the Exim mainlog for that.
>
> I wrote an embedded perl function to do rate limiting (I'm not sure
> if a ${run ..} expansion is cheaper or more expensive than ${perl
> ...}, although for multiple reciepts you only have to link in perl
> once). It uses a circular buffer of timestamps to calculate the
> rate. The number of items in the buffer and the elapsed time between
> the current insertion and the tail of the buffer is used to calculate
> the rate. It supports resizing of the buffer.
>
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Stuart Gall
Systems Administrator
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No user serviceable parts inside? Ill be the judge of that!
