Re: [Exim] Exim go slow

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Gavin Sherry
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim go slow
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Gavin Sherry wrote:

> I am experiencing an occassional problem with Exim. I run a few reasonably
> large lists using Exim. The processing speed of Exim is very well suited
> to list serving, except on random occassions when Exim, contrary to
> configuration, processes a given list sequentially. This can blow out the
> delivery time for a given list to 4 or 5 hours. My configuration reflects
> my requirement:
>
> queue_smtp_domains = *
> queue_run_max = 15
> remote_max_parallel = 100


More detail is probably needed to try to diagnose this. Which version of
Exim? How often do you start queue_runners? Have you got clear logs of
"good" and "bad" cases (preferably from the same list)? Are you doing
anything fancy such as adding headers or rewriting in the transport?

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