[Oberon] Net program hangs in tiny SMTP receiver (BlueBottle)
Aubrey McIntosh
mcintosh at vima.austin.tx.us
Tue Jul 1 21:01:43 CEST 2003
My tiny SMTP receiver program was online for 24x7 for about 6 months, and
received as many as 2,500 spam and legitimate messages.
Most of the time, this was running under the Stable release of May
22. However, I moved the relevant TCP files from the latest release to the
stable, re-compiled them toward the end of the epoch.
Almost any time there was an incoming file of 14-20 Kb, the system would
totally hang, except for the mouse.
In addition, there was a lot of disk activity. I speculate that the
software made a call for each character that I read from the net and put
into the received email disk image.
When the received email files were small, the system would work without
babysitting for periods up to several weeks. The number of emails received
since re-boot did not seem to be a problem.
I am now considering whether to pursue a project on BlueBottle, or to
switch over to BlackBox. I intend to build a Web Server, SMTP receiver,
and IMAP4 suite of programs. The Web Server part was adapted from the
BlueBottle code in the distribution. Although not finished, it appears to
be stable through the point that I have tested, i.e., it stays up for
weeks, keeps logs, serves pages, and faithfully performs the duties I have
been smart enough to write extensions for.
I wonder if anyone had tried my tiny server on the 'not stable' releases?
Comments?
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