#!/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 you'll want to use cache_time to avoid increasing your load on every connection by checking system load. =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 . =cut my $VERSION = 0.02; sub register { my ($self, $qp, @args) = @_; %{$self->{_args}} = @args; $self->{_args}->{max_load} = 7 if (!defined $self->{_args}->{max_load}); $self->{_args}->{uptime} = '/usr/bin/uptime' if (!defined $self->{_args}->{uptime}); $self->{_args}->{cache_time} = 10 if (!defined $self->{_args}->{cache_time}); $self->{_load} = -1; $self->{_time} = 0; $self->register_hook("connect", "loadcheck"); } sub loadcheck { my ($self, $transaction) = @_; if (time() > ($self->{_time} + $self->{_args}->{cache_time})) { # cached value expired if (-r '/kern/loadavg') { # *BSD # contains fix-point scaling value open(LD, "; close LD; my @vals = split(/ /, $res); $self->{_load} = ($val[0] / $val[3]); $self->{_time} = time(); $self->log(LOGDEBUG, "/kern/loadavg reported: $self->{_load}"); } elsif (-r '/proc/loadavg') { # *inux # contains decimal value # contains fix-point scaling value open(LD, "; close LD; $self->{_load} = (split(/ /, $res))[0]; $self->{_time} = time(); $self->log(LOGDEBUG, "/proc/loadavg reported: $self->{_load}"); } else { # 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->{_time} = time(); $self->log(LOGDEBUG, "$self->{_args}->{uptime} reported: $self->{_load}"); } } } if ($self->{_load} > $self->{_args}->{max_load}) { $self->log(LOGERROR, "local load too high: $self->{_load}"); return DENYSOFT; } return (DECLINED, "continuing with load: $self->{_load}"); }