Re: Spamassassin, fetchmail, exim, and system resource issues

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

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 of it.  If it is run from
(x)inetd, then the super-daemon can unwittingly create many parallel
"main" exim processes and exim can't control it's total system load.

There's also the _potential_ for creating an open relay if (x)inetd
isn't configured exactly right.  See the exim-users list archives for
a rather in-depth discussion of the issue and possible fixes.  The
best thing, IMO, is to just run exim as a daemon.  If you're on a
dial-up box, then there is no reason to daemonize it in any form
(either with or without (x)inetd).

-D

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