On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:00:24 +0100 (BST), Philip Hazel
<ph10@???> wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Marc Haber wrote:
>> Debian does both: -q<time>, and a regular cron job that invoked exim
>> -q to have messages delivered even when there is no exim daemon
>> (running from inetd, or exim died).
>
>Exim doesn't die. :-)
If the hardware is OK, and the system doesn't kill random processes
from memory overcomittment.
>That loses control over the maximum number, unless your cron job has a
>means of controlling it. If you are in a situation where messages take a
>very long time to deliver, you maybe don't want a huge number of
>slowly running queue runners to build up, do you? The default value for
>queue_run_max is 5.
So you would actually advise to only have queue runners started from
cron in a situation where an exim process starting regular queue
runners isn't desireable, and you would advise to have an exim -q30m
running even if the exim listening on port 25 it configured to start
from inetd?
Greetings
Marc
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