On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Oliver Cook wrote:
> I assume that the caching applies on a per exim
> process basis; and that, if the verification
> does not occur in the daemon process, this would
> be the cause of the additional mysql processes
> on the database server.
Correct.
> So, the question is, how do I go about limiting
> the number of database connections that Exim will
> open? Not very easily, I guess is the answer, if
> it is not the daemon that is doing the verifica-
> tion.
Correct again. The daemon does almost nothing - it must not do much,
because it has to react to incoming calls, so it spawns child processes
to do the real work.
> Perhaps this will be easier in Exim 4?
There are no plans to change the process structure in Exim 4.
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