https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2694
Bug ID: 2694
Summary: Wrong distribution to spamd-servers
Product: Exim
Version: 4.94
Hardware: x86-64
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: bug
Priority: medium
Component: Content Scanning
Assignee: tom@???
Reporter: heiko@???
CC: exim-dev@???
Created attachment 1362
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https://bugs.exim.org/attachment.cgi?id=1362&action=edit
0001-Fix-weight-calculation-for-spamd_address.patch
I have six SpamAssassin servers and I want to distribute the requests evenly
across them. I assumed the following would do this:
spamd_address = server1 783 : server2 783 : server3 783 : server4 783 : server5
783 : server6 783
But that was not the case. Instead, the distribution was as follows:
server1 33.3%
server2 16.6%
server3 16.6%
server4 16.6%
server5 16.6%
server6 0.0% (never got a request!)
If weight = 1 is explicitly set for all servers, which should be the default,
the result is the same. After a little experimentation, weight always seems to
be 1 too big for the first server and 1 too small for the last server. In fact,
I get even distribution across all servers if I configure the following:
spamd_address = server1 783 weight=1 : \
server2 783 weight=2 : \
server3 783 weight=2 : \
server4 783 weight=2 : \
server5 783 weight=2 : \
server6 783 weight=3
It works, but it's unintuitive and ugly. The calculation of weight introduced
with the fix of bug 670 (commit dc7b3d3) seems to be wrong. The first patch in
the attachments corrects this.
With the fix of bug 1720 (commit 7f06582) a comparable calculation was
introduced for socks proxies (with code duplication) with probably the same
error. The second patch in the attachments corrects this.
Both functions should also use random_number() instead random(). This function
already exists in Exim, is faster, suitable for testing due to fixed seed, used
by Exim for similar purposes and it provides enough randomness. The third patch
in the attachments changes this.
The fourth patch in the attachments introduce SPAMD_PRIORITY analogously to
SOCKS_PRIORITY because of consistency.
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