Re: [exim] smtp_accept_max_per_host going out of sync

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Joachim Wieland
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] smtp_accept_max_per_host going out of sync
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Joachim Wieland wrote:

> just wanted to tell you that smtp_accept_max_per_host seems to go out of
> sync sometimes... I've set it to 4 but a client complained that his
> connections weren't accepted anymore.


I have found the bug. You were either very unlucky, or running on a very
quiet system. The code was checking to see whether a new connection
could be accepted before looking to see if any processes for old
connections had completed. On a busy system, something else would have
woken the daemon up, and it would have noticed the completion of
previous connections, and adjusted the count, before the new connection
arrived.

This will be fixed in 4.50.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.