32 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildrop[maildropl] Re: No 1 sec guarantee on...
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Subject:[maildropl] Re: No 1 sec guarantee on Linux, was: OpenBSD 3.2 breaks Courier, Qmail.Actions...
From:Sam Varshavchik (mrs@courier-mta.com)
Date:Jan 16, 2003 2:55:44 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildrop

mw-l@csi.hu writes:

Well, Linux has no 1 second guarantees either. At the suggestion of Matthias, I now have a programm that recycles the same PID in much less than 1 second.

But you're not doing an exec() here. See how big of a penalty exec() imposes.

Here is the run of the program:

$ ./child Collision after 0.14 secs! child: 32383 PID: 13145

About seven microseconds per vfork.

The hardware is an 1100MHz, 256M RAM Athlon box, running RH Linux 8.0.

Hopefully, an alternative will be available by the time 8 Ghz CPUs are commonplace.

Looks like using inodes instead of microseconds is going to be the final solution.