I am running an exim on a Pentium 100 using Linux 2.0.29 with 40-80k
messages a day. Load is below 1 most of the time and that machine is also
running a full usenet feed and an anonymous ftp site. I have
queue_only_load set to 2.0 and smtp_accept_max not restricted. Have seen
around 20 or so active exims at the same time without significant changes
in the system load.
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Alan Thew wrote:
>One of our exim boxes running 1.61 with solaris 2.5.1 showed very high
>sustained load averages this afternoon, a large number of running exim
>processes were responsible.
>
>Here is a relevant section of my configure file:
>
>remote_sort = "*.liv.ac.uk:*.uk"
>smtp_accept_max=30
>queue_run_max = 6
>queue_only_load = 8.0
>
>I realise that the above figures could lead to 36+1 exims running potentially
>and I've been too generous. Given that the machine handles 50K items
>per day what do others feel is a sensible figure given that this is taking
>mail from PCs and it's prime job is to just accept the mail, delivery
>is less important?
>How expensive is a queue only exim? Is sorting, which I really like, too
>expensive in some cases?
>
>Thanks.
>
>
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>Alan Thew alan.thew@???
>Computing Services,University of Liverpool Fax: +44 151 794-4442
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