On 1 Mar 2002, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> Its a hard case here... you do really want that limit on exim for most
> stuff - otherwise you end up getting load averages that go sky high...
> Maybe the answer at present is to stop using that limit on exim but tune
> the load average limits so that if your box is thrashing you move to
> queue only (need to check *when* exim checks the load average).
Indeed. If your concern is system load, then put the check on the system
load. The limit on incoming messages in one connection is primarily
to limit the number of delivery processes.
> The ideal would be to add the "queue only after n message transactions"
> to be some form of acl so that you could apply a different policy for
> localhost as to the rest of the world.
But ACL's don't have a "queue only" facility. They are basically yes/no
things.
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