Jeroen van Aart: > I am pretty sure the babysitter does a few false restarts just because > the system is overloaded and it's not getting a response soon enough. > But without it you'd have an MTA less system for days. It's checking > connectivity on 127.0.0.1:25 with a timeout of 35 seconds, which I > believe is rather liberal.
It's unprodictive to kill off Postfix under overload. At the very least you should increase your 35-second deadline. There is an entire webpage devoted to how Postfix handles overload and what recovery mechanisms alraedy exist. http://www.postfix.org/STRESS_README.html Wietse
