Ok, now that we got that clear, I'm out for the count, I'll sit on the side
line and watch what happens (very interesting though to see ideas).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Ward" <gward@???>
To: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Reducing number of Exim processes
> On 18 July 2002, James Harr said:
> > What kind of machine are you running that on? (hardware & software)
> > How much system/processor load are you at normally?
> > If you are running anything else on the machine?
>
> It's a fairly robust PC (dual 800 MHz Pentiums, 512 MB RAM, one SCSI
> disk). It's running Debian Linux 3.0 ("woody"), kernel 2.4.18. Oh
> yeah, Exim 4.05. Gee, and I always scold people for leaving these
> details out -- how embarassing.
>
> The server is not overloaded -- we get around 1000 incoming messages a
> day. The only hard work is sending out these mailing list posts.
>
> > I don't know which OS you run, but you may be able to up the amount of
fd's
> > open. Try running 'lsof' (if you have it) to see which programs have the
> > most open fd's..
>
> File descriptors aren't the problem -- we already fixed that with
> /proc/sys/fs/file-max. The problem is the max number of processes; I'm
> not sure if that's tweakable under Linux. Also not sure if the problem
> is per-user or whole system.
>
> Greg
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