On Feb 12, 2007, at 5:06 PM, Tim Sexton wrote:
> Hello All,
> I have set queue_run_max=6 in my main configuration file,
> however,
> when Exim starts with exim -bd -q60m, I still wind up with
> upwards of
> 100 exim -bd -q60m processes. I'm sure I've missed something, but I
> really need to find out how to control the number of queue
> runners. It
> eventually just loads up the server and crashes :(
> Thanks for any help or info.
If I'm not mistaken, exim processes with -bd are listening for
incoming SMTP connections. You would limit those with the
smtp_accept_max setting. See also:
http://exim.org/exim-html-4.66/doc/
html/spec_html/index.html#toc0171.
Regards,
Marco