Noel Jones:
> Wietse Venema wrote:
> > Something that will drastically cut the time per session:
> >
> > smtpd_timeout = ${stress?10s}${stress:300s}
>
> I would be concerned about sites that are chronically short of
> smtpd processes with an inexperienced or inattentive admin.
> Maybe 20s~30s rather than 10s. That's still 10x or more
> better performance under stress, and 30s has been shown to be
> safe for everyday use.
I see that observation as an argument for < 30s timeouts under
stress :-)
(The idea is to help properly configured sites primarily. Sites
that are permanently overloaded will already be missing some email,
due to TCP-level or SMTP-level timeouts.)
> > smtpd_hard_error_limit = ${stress?2}${stress:20}
>
> Yes. Or stress?1. Whatever...
Yes, 1 will do. We're doing this only under conditions where some
mail is already not getting through.
Wietse
