Missing email messages

[Julian Field]

At 18:13 17/09/2003, you wrote:
> > >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?

Yes.
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Julian Field
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