On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:43:24AM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > My understanding is that postfix is not multi-threaded in general, but I > saw this:
Correct. There is no code in Postfix that creates threads. Any such code would be found in libraries. > <http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Multithreaded-Mail-Carrier-Postfix-2.6.0> > > and it made me wonder if that changed with 2.6 and later. The article in question is very poorly written. They are attempting to describe the new Postfix 2.6 multiple (configuration) instance management tooling. > If it remains that it is not multi-threaded, are there portions of postfix > (i.e., interacting with milters, etc) when it is? There is no code in Postfix that creates threads unless such code is in a library whose source code is not part of Postfix. All the Postfix services and command-line utilities have a single thread of control. -- Viktor.
