[tpop3d-discuss] signal 11?

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 05:23:39PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 05:14:34PM -0700, Nancy Pettigrew (work) wrote:
> > Problem for me is that there is no core file to be found and the error is
> > sporadic;
> 
> Have you tried setting ulimit -c unlimited (as below) so your
> environment permits writing core files?
> 
> > so far I've been unable to recreate it in a test environment.
> 
> I am currently working on integrating tpop3d, exim and Oracle and part
> of the requirements for deployment is a documented performance test.
> Oracle comes with its own diagnostics and benchmark system but it would
> be good to have a configurable expect-based tool to concurrently test
> tpop3d (and exim). With the dial cranked up it should be possible to
> flush out bugs, race conditions, etc by beating it increasingly hard.
> 
> Has anyone done anything like this?

I did play with such a thing briefly. Originally, I used
fetchmail and a scrit to send mail, but I think that a
solution based on perl's Net::POP3 would be preferable
(and simple to implement). I'll have a look for any
scripts which are at all presentable....

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