Magnus Bodin writes:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
>
> > Not AOL. Hotmail only uses it for outgoing. They tried using it for
> > incoming, but ran into qmail-send's single-threaded processing of
> > incoming email. I think they were the first party to ever run into
> > this problem, and I didn't realize what was happening when they asked.
>
> Exactly what does this mean? That qmail-send just processes one email
> at a time? And there is only one qmail-send that is master of and
> handling the queue (i.e. spawning off new qmail-(remote|local)s?
It means that qmail-send alternates between spawning jobs and
processing incoming mail. If mail arrives too quickly, the todo
section of the queue can create very large directories (because todo
is not a hashed tree of directories). Once qmail-send gets more than
1,000 (or thereabouts -- it depends on what filesystem you're using)
todo files, it can't recover, and the only help is to turn off
incoming mail.
> And the only remedy for this is load-balancing to several servers I
> guess..
>
> Did they really had to give up qmail?
Just for incoming mail.
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