I'm bringing this back to the list, for everyone's benefit. --On 28 April 2009 21:25:55 +0400 Peter Volkov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you Ian and Marc. > > В Втр, 28/04/2009 в 12:24 +0100, Ian Eiloart пишет: >> Finally, how do you run your queue runners? > > Ian, I'm just starting main exim process as > > /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -qq2m > > Previously I have -q2m but now I followed your suggestion and added > another q to make two pass run. > >> Don't have too many running at one time, and try using a two pass run. > > This suggestion a bit contradicts to what I've read on this mailing > list. I thought that the more queue runners I have running the faster > mail will leave queue. Also I've read on this mailing list suggestion to > upper queue_run_max (and I've put it equal to 100). But as I see from > the logs some queue runners (qr) step on other qr messages: > > 2009-04-28 20:29:56 1Lyotv-00043M-2D Spool file is locked (another > process is handling this message) > > And again as I found in this mailing list, this is merely a warning and > I should take it seriously only if this message is repeated for the same > message many times. So how many queue runners should be started? > Currently queue processing is really slow and I'm not sure how to make > it faster. Any way currently 144 is running on the server and it's > slow... Probably I should decrease number of queue runners? The most important thing is to keep the queue smaller. > В Втр, 28/04/2009 в 07:19 -0700, Marc Perkel пишет: >> What I've had luck with is putting the queues in a ram disk. Then >> setting it up with a fallback host so that if the message isn't >> delivered on the first try it transfers to another exim server that >> keeps the queues on a hard drive. > > Interesting. We'll increase the RAM to 8G too and mount /var/spool/exim > to tmpfs. But have you tried such setup without fallback host? I > envision that it's possible that disk became overfilled. What happens > next? Will exim stop accepting messages? -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex 01273-873148 x3148 For new support requests, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/help/ -- ## 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/
