Once again submitting a query. After even more research realised that such processes are deliveries spawned by qrunners in
order to make use of the same smtp connection for multiple messages to the same mail server. However the number of qrunners
fluctuates between 7 and 10 and the number of these children is way above 300. Anybody has any ideas why these children
spawn like rabbits and where to limit them?
Regards
Peter
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 05:48:06AM -0500, Peter Rabbitson wrote:
> Hello all. I am running Exim version 3.35 in conjunction with Mailscanner. I separated the recieve and delivery of mail into
> two separate processes in order for the virus scanning to work properly. I am also running a huge mailing list (more than
> 10000 subscribers) and this is where the problem occurs. When a posting is approved for delivery Mailman starts pumping
> messages to the input queue. They are being scanned and passed to the deluvery Exim process. This process for some reason
> keeps spawning and spawning children until I don't have good 300 processes running, clogging my connection and resulting in
> tons of smtp data timeout errors. I read some documentation for this matter and set `queue_smtp_domains = *` for my outgoing
> mailer. Then I run a qrunner every 1 minute. However I still get hundreds of processes like this:
>
> /usr/sbin/exim -C /etc/exim/exim_outgoing.conf -MCS -MCP -MCQ 1540 5 -MC remote_smtp mx.provide.net 2 19tE4B-0000M7-00
>
> How can I limit the number of these children, any ideas?
>
> Regards
>
> Peter
>
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