> > Queueing under load is bad advice, as it makes things worse. Mail servers > > are usually limited by I/O. Immediate delivery delivers from page cache. > > However delivery requires many more fsyncs than just queueing.
Yes, it causes more work in the short term, but less in total (long term). That's why it is a good advice for short peaks, and only then. > > Put it differently: What would break if geometric retry intervals would > > use the computed earliest retry time as interval for a random number? > > Probably nothing :-) Good, because it would help me. :-) Michael -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
