[Mimedefang] Re: config for big servers-- problem found

[David F. Skoll]

Nick wrote:

> Hey - We found something similar running mimedefang 2.52 on Solaris 9 with 
> everything buit 64bit. It turned out that the filenames that our quarantine 
> function generates were not all that random - each of the worker processes 
> appeared to be generating the same list of temporary file names & eventually 
> it all ground to a halt.

> Just adding a call to srand() at the start of sub filter appears to
> have fixed this -

Highly unlikely.  Look at the get_quarantine_dir subroutine.  No use of rand()
or tempfile() in there at all.

--
David.