I changed the numbers (I do use DB), and I am watching... no hangs yet ;)
Thanks
>From: Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: POP3 hanging....
>Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:15:18 +0700
>
>Rod TuK wrote:
> >
> > Anyone having the same problem? My server (James 1.2.1) works for must
>part
> > of the day, but sometimes it hangs on POP3 request. After that the only
> > thing I can do is to restart the process.
>
>Last week, I did the following on my local system (which runs exim):
>perl -e 'for ($i=0;$i<50;$i++) { system "mail -s \"test\"
>username\@bdb.pindad.com < lam.uue";}'
>exim then opened 50 connections to James. I had set James so that it has
>50 spool managers. Then I tried to telnet to James on port 110; I
>couldn't see POP's hello message. Telnet apparently connected to James,
>but it stayed just like that (no prompt).
>
>BTW, if you have the mail repositories on a database, it would be nice
>to have the number of connection to be larger than the # of spool
>managers. Once I saw "connection exhausted" in the log file (that are
>located in /path/to/james/bin; ie: DCB*) and James would operate much
>slower. Currently, I have the db connection number to be 75 and 50 spool
>managers. I believe that James handles the above perl command pretty all
>right.
>
>I don't know why the James POP server is too dependent to the SMTP
>server; if the SMTP server is busy, then no POP request would be
>handled.
>
> > Ideas????
>
>Try to increase the number of the spool managers and also the number of
>the db connections (if you use a database). It depends on the behavior
>of your users though. On POP, how many times in an hour do they make POP
>requests? The same on SMTP; the number of the spool manager threads
>should be adjusted to the (average) number of email sent concurrently by
>the users.
>
>Oki
>
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