Re: [EXIM] Why should I use Exim over Qmail?

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Auteur: Philip Hazel
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À: Friso Kuipers
CC: exim-users
Sujet: Re: [EXIM] Why should I use Exim over Qmail?
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.

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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