Re: exim / amavis-ng overload
David Fokkema wrote:
| On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:26:35AM +0100, Randy Orrison wrote:
|>David Fokkema wrote:
|>|Many, many mails were downloaded (thanks to this fine group, :-) and
|>|almost immediately, my server became irresponsive.
|>[In exim.conf:]
|>deliver_load_max = 4
|>queue_only_load = 4
|
| This seems very nice! Have to try out if amavis is run before or after
| queueing (is this a word?) otherwise this won't have effect. If amavis
| is run _after_ queueing and before delivery, this is great!
I should have mentioned that I don't know how amavis fits into the
equation. In my case, spamassassin was being run by procmail which was
being run when the messages were delivered, so queueing instead of
delivering when the load was high was exactly the right thing to do.
Let us know how it goes.
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