Missing email messages

[Ugo Bellavance]

> >Regarding this, I was wondering what kind of impact it has.  
> If I have 5
> >child process, queue interval at 5, I almost never get more than 3
> >messages in a batch.  Is it better to run less childs or 
> have them look in
> >the queue less often to be easier on ressources.  I guess 
> the first saves
> >memory and the second saves cpu?
> 
> You don't really want more children than you need, it will just waste
> memory mostly. If you have restricted RAM available, then be 
> very careful
> not to have too many children.
> 
> The queue scan interval only makes a difference when there is almost
> nothing going on. If there are any messages ready for 
> processing then they
> will be processed immediately. The queue scan interval is 
> only used when
> the queue is found to be completely empty, it waits a few 
> seconds before
> scanning the queue again so as not to needlessly waste CPU.

So if I have 2 Mailscanner children, and my queue interval is 5, the queue is scanned every 2.5 sec. in average when it is empty?