Victor Duchovni: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 03:31:29PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > > > > The master daemon triggers qmgr and pickup regularly. That "trigger" > > > write is non-blocking with a timeout of 1, so it cannot block the > > > master daemon. Except of course when the kernel is messed up. > > > > Hmm, except that write_buf() will retry the write() after en EAGAIN > > error. So to be really smart, write_buf() should watch the clock and > > break the loop when the time expires. > > Somewhat related question, if one removes all wakeup timers from > master.cf, will master(8) croak with a watchdog timer if the remaining > services are idle long enough?
I don't care. Postfix without queue manager makes no sense, and having no wakeup on the queue manager is insane. Wietse