On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Philip Hazel wrote:
>> What does exim do before kicking another exim into action?
>Very little! That's the whole point. The daemon gets rid of it quickly.
>However, the new Exim does some checks before responding.
Yes. What seems to trigger the event is when using the
smtp_accept_max_per_host.
The problem when not using smtp_accept_max_per_host is that sites like for
example Yahoo (with qmail) suddenly occupies quite a few of my
connections.
Any ideas? Has anything changed in 3.22 when it comes to this?
>Suggest you run your port 25 Exim in debugging mode for a test. See
>where it is hanging. (This may produce confusing output if the system is
>busy, unfortunately.)
Sadly, it seems quite hard to do. It's getting too much traffic.
Now, the machine has load, and I don't expect exim to do well under 1100
in load (hit that one yesterday when testing), but it seems extra slow.