On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 02:12:06AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
[...]
| I'd had exim running from inetd rather that as a daemon, which might
| also explain the many forkings.
[...]
Yeah, that would have an effect on it. If exim runs as a daemon, then
it can monitor and control the various forks
on Fri, Feb 22, 2002, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:47:52AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> | on Thu, Feb 21, 2002, Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> I agree -- it sounds like exim is forking lots of processes (one for
> each delivery) as it tries to deliver
>>"Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes:
Karsten> The problem I'm having as a dialup user is when I pull mail
Karsten> periodically. With several hundred emails stacked up, I can
Karsten> readily run into user process limits (256 processes per
Karsten> user) while handling mail.
I use
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:47:52AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| on Thu, Feb 21, 2002, Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| > "Karsten M. Self" writes:
| >
| > > When pulling mail, I'll see the system spike to 350 or more processes.
| > > It appears that each mail delivery initiates a separ
on Thu, Feb 21, 2002, Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> "Karsten M. Self" writes:
>
> > When pulling mail, I'll see the system spike to 350 or more processes.
> > It appears that each mail delivery initiates a separate exim process
> > (which I hadn't expected) and procmail process (this I
on Thu, Feb 21, 2002, christophe barbé ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> spamd/spamc are your friends.
Yes, they are. I'm already running them. Still have the problem.
I did do some trials a couple days ago on up to 2,000 messages. spamc
was about 4x faster than spamassassin -- 1 second per mess
spamd/spamc are your friends.
When I started using spamassassin on my laptop I got the same problem each
time I plug it on the network.
My conclusion was that spamassassin was the real problem (with the
forked perl interpretor for each mail).
Worst than you, it triggered the bug in current 2.4 ker
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 02:46:24PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| I've been running spamassassin on several boxes (home and work) over the
| past few weeks. It rocks. Completely replaced my own procmail spam
| detection recipies.
Sweet.
| The problem I'm having as a dialup user is when I pull
"Karsten M. Self" writes:
> When pulling mail, I'll see the system spike to 350 or more processes.
> It appears that each mail delivery initiates a separate exim process
> (which I hadn't expected) and procmail process (this I had).
I don't send fetchmail's output through exim, I just put this i
I've been running spamassassin on several boxes (home and work) over the
past few weeks. It rocks. Completely replaced my own procmail spam
detection recipies.
The problem I'm having as a dialup user is when I pull mail
periodically. With several hundred emails stacked up, I can readily run
int
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