On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Dave C. wrote:
> I have a question on this - do queue runners pick a random subdirectory
> to process, or do they run them in order?
>
> Eg, if I start 5 queue runners, will they all start with the same
> subdir, or different ones?
>
> I suspect (and am hoping) they they are random. This is Exim 3.3x, btw..
Each queue runner scans the main directory first, to get a list of
subdirectories. This list is then randomly sorted before it is used. I
don't claim that Exim random numbers are very random, but I think they
are good enough for this kind of purpose.
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