Re: Old song - timeouts

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On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 mea@nic.funet.fi wrote:

> ...
> >>> BTW. I noticed that changing the timeout values in smtpserver.h doesn't
> >>> help a single bit. That precisely (and a quick look at the smtpserver
> >>> code) gave me the idea that there must be something wrong with the alarm()
> >>> usage. Don't you think that it would be better to use some form of virtual
> >>> timing (e.g. by virtualizing timers with setitimer?)
> >> 
> >> Nope, nothing in the timers has changed to cause this type of problems.
> >
> > But how would you explain that changing the timeout values in smtpserver.h
> > doesn't affect the smtpserver behavior at all?
> 
> Perhaps you could watch system a bit, and attach 'strace' to active
> smtpservers -- or perhaps even to use
> 	strace -fp smtp-daemon-pid
So far I did watch the tcp packets with tcpdump, but nothing unusual
happens there...