Message Batches

[Raymond Dijkxhoorn]

Hi!

> At the moment, any child takes as many messages as it can up to the limits
> set in the batch size parameters.
> Counting the total number of messages that *can* be scanned is actually
> quite an expensive operation. At the moment it only has to be done once as
> messages are date-sorted then put in the batch. The file-locking operation
> only has to be done once.

On a busy system this is something you definately wont do ...

Bye,
Raymond