Mark Delany([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.31 22:32:26 +0000:
> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:13:56PM +0200, Roger Svenning allegedly wrote:
> > Ok I see, so traffic shapers like altq and dummynet are made by people that
> > don't understand the basics of tcp/ip ? :-)
> > I didn't mean "blocked" literally, what I want is to make sure that smtp
> > traffic, when qmail gets several thousand of mails dumped into it's queue,
> > doesn't slow down http traffic too much, by putting some sort of a limit on
> > qmail I want to avoid packetloss.
>
> We understand what you want. Do you understand that qmail has no
> facility for doing this? The only way is to use a traffic shaper
> external to qmail.
qmail indirectly contains instrumentation for that. it is called remote
concurreny.
you might
echo 2>/var/qmail/contro/concurrencyremote && svc -t /service/qmail
which would limit the running qmail-remote processes to two which leads
to less bandwidth consumption for outgoing mail.
/k
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