On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 2) Exim queue runners' memory requirements are directly proportional to
> the size of the largest spool directory.
Yes, that's true. I'd forgotten to point that out.
> Do you think point 2 is unavoidable, or is it just the result of poor
> memory management in an area that you never imagined would become
> important?
It's unavoidable without an entirely different way of doing queue runs.
(Basically, Exim sucks the queue - i.e. the list of files - into memory
at the start, and then processes it. When the spool directory is split,
it does this one sub-directory at at time.)
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