How many instances to spawn?

[Francesco Rotondo]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Zanker" <mike at ZANKER.ORG>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 11:14 AM
Subject: How many instances to spawn?


> 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!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike.
>

Hi, I have quite the same situation on my mail server. I upgraded
MailScanner to version 4 about 2 weeks ago and realized that most of the
time only one of the instances is working. So, I think that this number can
be safely reduced to 2 or 3 instances.

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