On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 13:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 10:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> Hello, how to refuse the logons based on load average?
> >
> >In imapd.conf you can set a limit on the number of spawned connection.
> >
>
> how?
man cyrus.conf (sorry worng file)
maxchild=-1
The maximum number of instances of this service to
spawn. A value of -1 means unlimited. This integer
value is optional.
>
> >Refusing on load average I think is always a strange idea as load avg.
> >is not a good basis for how loaded a machine is.
>
> why?
load is an evaluation of many thing io , cpu usage , memory usage?.
Since mail is often IO based high loads happen. Often no enough to stop
things from working.
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Simon Loader
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