Re: [exim-dev] Randomising retry times?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Michael Haardt
CC: exim-dev
Subject: Re: [exim-dev] Randomising retry times?
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Michael Haardt wrote:

> > If you specify say -q5m, does that mean that the daemon runs the queue
> > at 0, 5, 10, etc minutes past the hour, or is it 5, 10, etc minutes
> > after the process was started.
> >
> > If it is the latter (and in my mind more likely) case, then surely the
> > machines are out of sync with each other anyway?
>
> I think it is the latter, but that does not matter: The clocks are
> synchronised with NTP, so the first case would be a problem. If the
> configuration changes, all machines reload it at once, so all master
> processes start at once.


The daemon starts a queue runner when it starts up, and thereafter at
the given intervals, so yes, it is the latter.


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