saslauthd performance anxiety

[Paul M Fleming]

Personally I have issues with dumping the contents of a password cache
to a file. Especially in this case, they WILL be stored in cleartext. I
had planned on keeping somes stats (hits,misses,etc)


Jeremy Rumpf wrote:
> 
> > This whole idea sounds great, especially as I'd expect a lot of the
> > authentication load to come from a small number of users with their
> > clients set to check mail every few minutes.
> >
> > For debugging it would help if there was a way to force a flush of the
> > entire cache, and one to dump its contents. I'm not sure how you'd get
> > saslauthd to recognise maintenance commands like this - maybe some method
> > of "out-of-band signalling", which seems better than tinkering with the
> > socket protocol.
> >
> > --
> > Simon Brady                             mailto:simon.brady at otago.ac.nz
> > ITS Technical Services
> > University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
> 
> How about SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2?
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeremy