On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:02:40PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 06:19:38PM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > > Under heavy SMTP load, we occasionally observe the exim4 > > daemon crashing (with the result that no further > > connections can be accepted, obviously). We can reproduce > > this here with the `postal' SMTP benchmark (package > > postal) and the following command-line: > > > > postal -p 10 -c 10 -m 1 localhost users - > > I cannot reproduce this, neither on sarge nor on sid. Changes to your > setup: My tests were running in a chroot, and I aliased the account to > ":blackhole:" which should be the same as /dev/null but does not > require pipes to be allowed in the router.
ok, changing /dev/null for :blackhole: doesn't make any difference here, so it's possible it's a difference in some other aspect of the exim config. That said, what sort of throughput figures is postal giving? You may want to try with -c 1 instead of -c 10 to see whether you can increase the process turnover rate significantly. -- Chris Lightfoot mySociety -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
