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Auteur: Juha Saarinen
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Aan: Exim Users Mailing List
Onderwerp: Re: [exim] Connections refused during high load averages - FreeBSD 5.3beta
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:16:10 -0400, Stephen Gran <steve@???> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 11:00:05AM +1200, Juha Saarinen said:
> > Hope this isn't going to be a "Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I bang my
> > head against the well"


Humm, against the wall I meant :-)


> Taken from spec.txt:
>
> $load_average: This variable contains the system load average, multiplied by
>   1000 to that it is an integer. For example, if the load average is 0.21, the
>   ....
>   "deliver_queue_load_max"             no queue deliveries if load high
>   "queue_only_load"                    queue incoming if load high
>   "smtp_load_reserve"                  SMTP from reserved hosts if load high
>   "smtp_load_reserve"                  only reserve hosts if this load
>   "queue_only_load"                    no immediate delivery if load is high

>
> You'll want to set some of these to appropriate levels for your system.


Thanks Stephen, will check that out.

Seems a bit odd to set the smtp_load_reserve to 20,000 or 25,000 though...


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Juha