On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Friso Kuipers wrote:
> After the holidays my ISP has always hundreds of e-mails waiting for me.
> These are forced down exim's throat in one go. Exim spawns a lot of kids
> (ps -ax looks amazing) but untill now never failed. It seems more
> robust than you think. But I don't know what happens when memory runs
> out, though.
Unless you have changed smtp_accept_queue_per_connection (introduced at
release 2.03) it should only spawn that many processes per connection
(default 10). Your ISP may be making many connections, of course. That
is limited by smtp_accept_max.
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