Hi Philip,
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Gavin Sherry wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I decided to run a mailing list of about 7000 people out of postgres with
> > Exim. I was quite surprised when queue runners were picking up the message
> > and using memory like this:
> >
> > exim 566 8.6 6.5 289996 33820 ? S 10:49 0:27 /usr/exim/bin/exim -qq
> >
> > Has anyone come across this kind of thing when using the pgsql interface?
>
> I suspect that pgsql hasn't really got anything to do with it. Have you
> set split_spool_directory? If not, you might like to try that. See a
Yes, I am using split_spool_directory. The reason why I thought it was the
pgsql interface is that if I run the mailing list off the file system
(throw alias director) I use only about 2 MB of memory.
Thanks
Gavin
