Re: [Exim] Reducing number of Exim processes

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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