Re: [Exim] rsmtp: to many processes

Philip Hazel schrieb :
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Joerg Sommer wrote:
>
>> The point at the default behaviour, that distrub me, is that there more
>> then queue_run_max processes started for delivering a batch.
>
> The ONLY use of queue_run_max is to limit the number of queue runners
> *started by the daemon*. If you start queue runners by other means, you
> have to use your own mechanism for limiting their number.

%-) I set queue_run_max to 4 and if I start exim -q it runs only 4 queue
runners. I've never checked what happens if I send more the 4 mail
parallel to exim, but I thought there would only run 4 processes to
deliver the mails.

Joerg.