I'm sending it as one message to an alias...
lists:
driver = forwardfile
domains = lists.london.virgin.net
no_more
require_files = /data/exim/lists/${local_part}
senders = lsearch;/data/exim/lists/senders-${local_part}
file = /data/exim/lists/${local_part}
no_check_local_user
forbid_pipe
forbid_file
one_time
skip_syntax_errors
headers_remove = "Resent-From:Resent-To:Resent-Subject:\
Resent-Dats:X-Sender"
headers_add = "Precedence: bulk"
errors_to = whatsnew-bounce@???
At the top of the config file is:
freeze_tell_mailmaster
errors_address = ops@???
auto_thaw = 2h
rfc1413_query_timeout = 0s
remote_max_parallel = 5
It does deliver quite a few messages per queue pass, but the rest get
deferred because of the fork error. When it's got to the end of the list,
exim just sits around seemingly doing nothing and using all the CPU cycles
of the machine.
I'd expect it not to try and do 5 parallel deliveries because of the
serialize_hosts option on this domain on the transport it uses.
Thanks.
Scot.
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Scot Elliott wrote:
>
> > But why is it trying to spawn so many sub-processses? Does exim spawn a
> > new process to do the routing for each member of a list? ... and if it
> > does, is there a config option to limit the number it spawns? (I did look
> > but I can't find it in the manual...)
>
> It depends on your configuration. How are you sending this list to it?
> Is is as one message with an alias, or as lots of different messages?
> If the latter, perhaps you should inject them with "queue_only" (-odq)
> so that each one doesn't try to spawn a delivery process.
>
> If the former, it shouldn't be running more processes than the number
> set in remote_max_parallel.
>
>
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> ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
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