Carefull, 255 = 11111111, 256=00000001
Dirk
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 03:47:58PM -0500, Tim Pierce wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 06:37:22PM +0800, Marlon Anthony Abao wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > with the release of the new linux kernel, the limit of concurrent
> > processes is now raised. according to conf-spawn we cannot raise the qmail
> > concurrency limit past 256. is there any reason for this?
>
> Qmail internally stores the concurrency limit in an object of type
> char. If you tried to specify a limit higher than 256, it would
> overflow and give you a concurrency limit *lower* than what you asked
> for.
>
> Is there a compelling technical reason why qmail shouldn't support
> more concurrent delivery processes, or is this just the result of
> short-sighted design considerations?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Tim Pierce
> RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
> system obfuscator and hack-of-all-trades
