On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Magnus Bodin writes:
> > On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
> >
> > > Not AOL. Hotmail only uses it for outgoing. They tried using it for
> > > incoming, but ran into qmail-send's single-threaded processing of
> > > incoming email. I think they were the first party to ever run into
> > > this problem, and I didn't realize what was happening when they asked.
> >
> > Exactly what does this mean? That qmail-send just processes one email
> > at a time? And there is only one qmail-send that is master of and
> > handling the queue (i.e. spawning off new qmail-(remote|local)s?
>
> It means that qmail-send alternates between spawning jobs and
> processing incoming mail. If mail arrives too quickly, the todo
> section of the queue can create very large directories (because todo
> is not a hashed tree of directories). Once qmail-send gets more than
> 1,000 (or thereabouts -- it depends on what filesystem you're using)
> todo files, it can't recover, and the only help is to turn off
> incoming mail.
And now the logical question follows.
Doesn't your todo-patch fix this? (The "hashed tree of
directories"-problem.)
/magnus
