On 2006-03-20 at 09:26 -0000, Gareth Hastings wrote: > I am looking to increase the number of concurrent connections my server > can handle. Currently it's the default limit of 20. Is there any kind of > guide on how high I can set this? The machine it's running on it only a > P3 1Ghz. I don't want to place it under *too* much load!!
"It depends". Are you doing virus scanning? Are you doing spam-scanning? If so, which spam-scanning software? What sort of disk system do you have, and how much RAM? All of these, you need to ask _yourself_ so you figure out what to test. There are too many factors for reliable figures from us. The best you can do is raise it and test. Make sure that you test with spam, virus (including inside ZIP archives) and large clean mails which need to pass through both the other scanners first. Scanners like SpamAssassin are *wet-finger-in-air* going to limit how high you can set smtp_accept_max rather more than something like dspam will. -Phil -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
