Re: [Exim] Some newbie questions

> michael@??? said:
> > Indeed. On Linux, I use this to monitor the queue size with MRTG:
>
> Fun when your queue bloats massively....

Actually, it is pretty fast and causes no problems for me up to 100k
mails (current queue size). I think that many queue runners keep the
directory entries cached.

> I guess that many dedicated mail systems have the MTA spool on a
> separate filesystem, in which case your inode count is directly related
> to the number of spool files you have. The SNMP agents I have played
> with can pull out the number of inodes relatively easily so that can be
> directly queried with MRTG.

Using the number of inodes as a measure is a good idea for huge queues!

Michael