Re: [Exim] Slow

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Author: Jeff Fiegel
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Slow
I can't imagine that it would be the network... I have the same problem
when sending from outside of the network but I will check to se what I can
find... (and the network only has 4 PC on it... and nothing much if
happening on them)

I started at 6:30am .. it is now Noon and it is quite finished yet


At 03:44 PM 4/15/00 +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
>On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Jeff Fiegel wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't think so, because I would assume that it would do its resolves
> > at either the start or the finish of the sending not constantly
> > during....(Which is where my sloooooonessssss is)
>
>Delays *during* sound like a networking problem, unless the receiving
>Exim server is amazingly overloaded. The process is just sitting there
>sucking in the data. A delay at the end could be due to resolving etc.
>if you have set the option to check the headers lines. I can think of
>only two ways of checking this:
>
>(1) You run the receiving Exim daemon in debugging mode by starting it
>up with
>
> exim -d9 -bd
>
>for example. If your system is at all busy, this will generate a lot of
>output on stderr, but if you can arrange for just the one message to be
>being received, you can watch the output and maybe see where the delay
>is. One possibility is to use a non-standard port, e.g.
>
> exim -d9 -bd -oX 1234
>
>if you can configure your Eudora to send on port 1234 instead of 25.
>
>(2) You use some kind of network sniffing to watch the packets go by...
>
>
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>Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
>ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.

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