Author: Mark Thornton Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Setting for extra exim processes
On 23/04/2010 08:08, Peter Bowyer wrote: > On 22 April 2010 23:30, Marc Perkel<marc@???> wrote:
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>> I'm sure it's in the docs somewhere but I can't find it. What is the
>> setting to allocate extra exim processes to listed for incoming
>> connections. I'm looking to allocate spare processes to increase
>> performance.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
> There isn't one - Exim has one listener that forks a new process for
> each connection. SMTP doesn't have the real-time demands that (eg)
> HTTP has, so doesn't need the kind of architecture that an HTTP server
> has.
>
> Peter
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>
Clients MUA deliver mail using SMTP and incur a delay, sometimes with an
irritating dialog box, if the SMTP server is slow.
