on Thu, Feb 21, 2002, Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes: > > > When pulling mail, I'll see the system spike to 350 or more processes. > > It appears that each mail delivery initiates a separate exim process > > (which I hadn't expected) and procmail process (this I had). > > I don't send fetchmail's output through exim, I just put this in > .fetchmailrc > > defaults mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f %F" > > which serializes mail delivery. So instead of hitting user limits, it > takes a while to go through morning mail... maybe I should try > spamd....
spamc/spamd is highly recommended.
I think the problem is exim's handling moreso than the others, so your
suggesting may be sane. I trimmed my max messages accepted from ~100 to
~50. I've got exim running queue every five minutes, which I think I'll
cut to something like 2-3:
/etc/exim/exim.conf: smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 50
...and the appropriate mod in /etc/init.d/exim.
If I understand properly, this should cause exim to attempt fewer
simultaneous delivers, and spread deliveries out over several minutes.
Peace.
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