On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Jeffrey Wheat wrote:
> I've just built exim 4.24 on a FreeBSD 5.0 server
> and decided to convert the config file to use the
> .include feature as to avoid redoing it each time
> I upgrade.
You do realize, I hope, that this means Exim will have to open and read
n files instead of 1 each time a new Exim delivery process is started,
which can be very often on a busy system. It maybe that in your
enviroment this is not noticeable, but...
[Aside 1: Smail used multiple config files; for Exim I went for one file
instead, partly for the performance reason, but partly because I want to
be able to see the whole thing at once in my editor. Seems like not
everyone feels this way. :-]
[Aside 2: For absolute maximum performance in this area, I would write a
script to build the "live" config from one or more source files,
stripping out all the comments. But I suspect the performance gain would
not be very much. Exim is, after all, limited by disk accesses rather
than cpu.]
> I have noticed something weird about it however. If I do this:
I will investigate the weirdness in due course. Thanks for the report.
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