Re: [exim] multiple copies of exim4 running

This server is handling very low volumes of email
about 10 per hour. My limited understanding of email MTAs
is that to deliver an email to the server a connection is
made which spawns an exim process. When complete the connection and
its process should die. If that is correct, then it looks like that on my
system the exim process remains after the connection is gone ???

As I say my knowledge in this area is limited, so thanks to everyone for
your patience and understanding.

//Ger



"Jeremy Harris" <jgh@???> wrote:
> Gerard Hooton wrote:
>> I have seen this grow to 100+ is that ok?
>
> That's entirely up to what loading you expect for your system.
> Exim is happy with that level on most current hardware.
> You get a process for each current connection. As Pete said,
> "exiwhat" shows you what each one is doing. The "too many
> connections" message in the log appears when you go over
> the number you've configured in the exim config file.
>
> - Jeremy
>

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Gerard Hooton


Systems Administrator


Blarney Boy's National School,


Blarney.


Co. Cork