At 12:51 PM Wednesday 4/14/99, Bart Grubb wrote:
>
> I am running qmail on machine who's sole purpose is sending remote email.
> Each message contains unique text as ordered by the user and generated from a
> database. The email is queuing much faster than it is sending over the DS3
> WAN connection. The bandwidth is not totally being used and I have unused
> CPU Bus and Disk I/O. The ulimits/kernel configurable limits have not been
> met unless I am missing something.
>
> My problem is that even though I have set the "concurrencyremote" to 509 I
> still do not meet this amount of remote sends. The number of remote sends
> hovers around 256(253-260). This seems to close to the common number of 256
> to be a coincidence, but I could be wrong. To be quite frank I'm not sure
> what is causing this. I need to get these remote sends up to something
> closer to the 509 in order to get the information out on a timely bases. Any
> help would be appreciated.
That's easy. The maximum for concurrencyremote is 256.
Check out conf_spawn in the sources. To get higher than that you need
multiple instances of qmail installed.
Regards.
