Measuring spare capacity

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Thanks Julian,

Any reason why there never seems to be '1 messages waiting'?

Just curious

Bart...

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From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Julian Field
Posted At: 07 December 2004 15:49
Posted To: MailScanner
Conversation: Measuring spare capacity
Subject: Re: Measuring spare capacity

MailScanner wrote:

>This surprised me. I was expecting the batch size to grow during busy
>periods. It seems that the batch size is generally a single message,
>even though more messages are waiting to be processed. Looking at log
>snippets in the mailing list archives confirms that this is common.
>Looking at the time distribution of (rather rare) larger batches I
found
>these spread randomly over the day.
>
>
You will often get the situation where there are apparently more
messages waiting than are picked up for processing. The "messages found"
figure includes messages that are still in the process of being
received, whereas the batch size can only include messages that have
been completely received.

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