Hello!
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Tamas TEVESZ wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Alexander V Alekseev wrote:
>
> > > > extremely low speed. The main trouble is fork(), and reinitialisation.
> > > > But I don't think, it's really possibly to make exim threaded in a
> > > > moderate period of time. )
> > >
> > > I would not want exim to be threaded, exim avoids to synchronize as much
> > > as possible, and that's good.
> > Exim relies on outer syncronization. It's easy, but very
> > time-consuming.
>
> if you think that *this* particular issue will *ever* become a
> bottleneck in a mail system, you're far off track.
Of course, not. ;-))
Really, I started looking on exim while making some complicated
mailsystem configuration. We needed oracle integration, but current
database lookup system reconnects to database on every fork(). It's a
VERY high load on database and client side. So I made cashing subsystem.
Now DB lookup is not a problem.
Bye. Alex.
