[Mailmunge] Grief After OS Update

[Dianne Skoll]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:51:35 -0400
list--- via Mailmunge <mailmunge at lists.mailmunge.org> wrote:

> > You'll lose a bit of performance

> What are we talking about? Like instead of 8ms it might take 15ms? Or
> more substantial? Like you wont notice unless your processing
> hundreds+ per minute?

I don't know.  I haven't tested it to find out.  I don't think scan
times will be affected much, but starting up a new worker is likely to
be much slower because instead of just a fork(), it will involve a
fork() and an execve() of Perl.

I'd say that unless you're processing 50+ messages per minute, it won't
really matter.

> > (Of course, depending on your filter, you might need to update any
> > Perl modules that aren't packaged by the OS.)

> What do you mean by this. Are you saying if our own code relies on a
> perl lib? Or do you mean that a package manager update of perl might
> not update everything mailmunge would need?

What I mean is this: If *your* filter code happens to rely on a Perl
module that wasn't packaged with the OS and that has a component
written in C, you'll run into the same issue.

The standard Mailmunge code shouldn't rely on anything that isn't
shipped with most Linux distros.

Regards,

Dianne.