#!/usr/bin/perl =head1 NAME loadcheck =head1 DESCRIPTION Only takes email transactions if the system load is at or below a specified level. If this is running on a system that provides /kern/loadavg or /proc/loadavg it will be used instead of the 'uptime' command. Once a load value is determined, it is cached for a period of time. See the cache_time below. Since fork/exec is expensive in perl, if using the 'uptime' method, use cache_time to avoid increasing your load on every connection. =head1 CONFIG max_load This is the 1 minute system load where we won't take transactions if our load is higher than this value. (Default: 7) cache_time A recently determined load value will be cached and used for the assigned number of seconds. (Default: 10) uptime The path to the command 'uptime' if different than the default. (Default: /usr/bin/uptime) Example: loadcheck cache_time 30 loadcheck max_load 7 uptime /usr/bin/uptime =head1 SEE ALSO Original version: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qpsmtpd/2006/01/msg4422.html Variant with caching: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qpsmtpd/2006/03/msg4710.html Steve Kemp's announcement of an alternate load limiter: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qpsmtpd/2008/03/msg7814.html =head1 AUTHOR Written by Peter Eisch . =head1 CHANGES v0.03 - msimerson - 2014-03-21 * refactored "find the way to get load avg" out of loadcheck (every connection) into get_load_method which is run in register. If we can't get the load average, don't register the hook. * added BSD::getloadavg method (tested on FreeBSD) v0.02 - github@rsiddall - resurrected from list archives =cut my $VERSION = 0.03; sub register { my ($self, $qp, @args) = @_; $self->{_args} = { @args }; $self->{_args}{max_load} ||= 7; $self->{_args}{uptime} ||= '/usr/bin/uptime'; $self->{_args}{cache_time} ||= 10; $self->{_load} = -1; $self->{_time} = 0; $self->{_method} = $self->get_load_method(); # only register the hook if we can measure load if (ref $self->{_method} eq 'CODE') { $self->register_hook("connect", "loadcheck"); } } sub loadcheck { my ($self, $transaction) = @_; if (time() > ($self->{_time} + $self->{_args}{cache_time})) { # cache value expired, update $self->{_method}->(); $self->{_time} = time(); }; if ($self->{_load} > $self->{_args}{max_load}) { $self->log(LOGERROR, "local load too high: $self->{_load}"); return DENYSOFT, "Server load too high, please try again later."; } return DECLINED, "continuing with load: $self->{_load}"; } sub get_load_method { my ($self) = @_; eval "use BSD::getloadavg;"; if (!$@) { return sub { require BSD::getloadavg; $self->{_load} = (getloadavg())[0]; $self->log(LOGDEBUG, "BSD::getloadavg reported: $self->{_load}"); } } if (-r '/kern/loadavg') { # *BSD return sub { open(LD, '<', "/kern/loadavg"); # contains fix-point scaling value my $res = ; close LD; my @vals = split(/ /, $res); $self->{_load} = ($vals[0] / $vals[3]); $self->log(LOGDEBUG, "/kern/loadavg reported: $self->{_load}"); } } if (-r '/proc/loadavg') { # *inux return sub { open(LD, "<", "/proc/loadavg"); # contains decimal value my $res = ; # contains fix-point scaling value close LD; $self->{_load} = (split(/ /, $res))[0]; $self->log(LOGDEBUG, "/proc/loadavg reported: $self->{_load}"); } } if (-x $self->{_args}{uptime}) { return sub { # the various formats returned: # 10:33AM up 2:06, 1 user, load averages: 6.55, 3.76, 2.48 # 12:29am 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.05, 0.06 # 12:30am up 5 days, 12:43, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 my $res = `$self->{_args}{uptime}`; if ($res =~ /aver\S+: (\d+\.\d+)/) { $self->{_load} = $1; $self->log(LOGDEBUG, "$self->{_args}{uptime} reported: $self->{_load}"); } } } $self->log(LOGERROR, "unable to acquire system load"); return; };