Schu, >> I have a small system at home using 5 slaves and which receives about 120 > > connections per day, almost all of which are between 0700 and 2300, so some > > of the slaves will be idle for longer than 8 hours overnight. > > > > You may consider cutting back to two slaves to save system > memory. You certainly don't need 5 slaves with this mail load.
Ah, but I do, because the mail pattern is such that I tend to get mail in bursts on a regular basis, where 4-5 slaves are busy for a couple of minutes. Yes, for a large part of the time they are idle, but I don't mind that - I use embedded Perl, so the memory requirement to add a slave is fairly small. I tend to run with 3 as the minimum, and 10 as the max, as I don't want any mail to be delayed by the lack of a free slave. Paul. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.2.5/284 - Release Date: 17/03/2006 _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
