On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:41:46PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote: > Regardless of queue runner start intervals, the system is > self-synchronizing. > > (1) receiving machine recovers from outage > > (2) a queue runner on a sending machine successfully delivers a message, > then based on the hints db starts pumping messages down the connection > > (3) at various intervals other queue runners on the sending machines do > the same, increasing the receiver's load by stages > > (4) when the load is too high, the receiver starts deferring *all* senders > at the *same* time > > (5) thus they put the same retry time in their databases
If the queue runner interval is small enough, yes, that's exactly the problem. Michael -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
