----- Original Message ----- From: "Benedict Verheyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:26 AM Subject: exim4 opening to many threads
> Hi, > > i have exim4 running and today the people from the cable company > came over and installed a cable phone. For the installation they shut > down the moment for an hour and forgot to plug in the network > cable into the moment. When i came home, i saw that my connection > was gone, plugged the cable back in and my server started to fetch > mail. Since it had been a couple of hours since the mail was fetched, > a lot of mail came in. My server started over 50 exim4's and the server > chokes on it since there are only a couple of amavis and spamd threads > running. > How can i limit the number of threads that exim opens at a time? > Ideal would be for example if you could specify to only have 10 > running exim threads at a time so the system doesn't choke when > receiving lots of mail. > Is this possible? > > Thanks, > Benedict I added a few options and they seem to work well: smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 10 smtp_accept_max = 6 smtp_accept_queue = 5 queue_only_load = 20 deliver_queue_load_max = 40 Adjusting the 20 / 40 seems to have the most impact. Now the server is usable even if it's collecting a huge number of mails because of downtime. Now the exim processes don't starve other processes like amavisd and spamd of resources. Regards, Benedict -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
