On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> well, as a trivial example here (with a moderately complex
> config with some perl),
>
> echo QUIT | time exim -bhc 1.2.3.4
>
> uses about 0.14s user + system time (and about the same
> for exim -bt chris or exim -bP > /dev/null).
The simplest test would be
time exim -bV
That reads the config and does very little else. When I run it on my
workstation I get:
real 0m0.020s
user 0m0.008s
sys 0m0.004s
which is an order of magnitude less that your figure! My configuration
is pretty standard.
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