Hi there, 2008/3/6, 韓家標 W B Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am curious if there is a way to lower exim's priority while it is > > being run. > > > Depends on the OS, but generally 'yes'.
FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 > > > I had a situation where having been blocked by Yahoo I > > ended up with some 8K emails in queue. This would be all right but my > > machine so far is humble Pentium III 866 with 512 MB RAM. So while > > watching the CPU, I noticed that all day long it was being used at > > 100% (no idle time). I have dealt with the queue problem temporarily > > but I wonder whether in situations like this there is a way to lower > > exim thread's priority to leave some cycles for other tasks? > It is easier to 'nice' the daemon when you start it. So long as there > are adequate resources, it will run just as fast. > As to whether you apply 'nice' to a binary, a UID, or a PID, where, and > when on *your* OS: > > 'man nice' You compelled me to look again and I now think that this should do it: nice -n 15 exim -bd -q15m Thank you Bill! -- Zbigniew Szalbot -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
