How many instances to spawn?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Nov 22 10:24:51 GMT 2002


At 10:14 22/11/2002, you wrote:
>I'm just wondering how many instances of MailScanner I need to run on a
>mail server that, on average, receives about one e-mail every two or
>three minutes but sometimes in bursts of two or three at the same time.
>Five instances seems overkill in this situation!

1 should be plenty.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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