On 23/04/2010 08:08, Peter Bowyer wrote:
> On 22 April 2010 23:30, Marc Perkel<[email protected]>  wrote:
>    
>> I'm sure it's in the docs somewhere but I can't find it. What is the
>> setting to allocate extra exim processes to listed for incoming
>> connections. I'm looking to allocate spare processes to increase
>> performance.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>      
> There isn't one - Exim has one listener that forks a new process for
> each connection. SMTP doesn't have the real-time demands that (eg)
> HTTP has, so doesn't need the kind of architecture that an HTTP server
> has.
>
> Peter
>
>
>    

Clients MUA deliver mail using SMTP and incur a delay, sometimes with an 
irritating dialog box, if the SMTP server is slow.

Mark Thornton


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