Re: qmail-send progress with large queue/todo

[Peter van Dijk]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:50:36AM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 02:13:47PM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote:
> >I've been thinking about this issue, and was wondering if it would be
> >possible to fix this in some simple way.  Would it be possible to modify
> 
> If one has big-todo, is there any point in spending so much time
> working the todo?  Switching the priority so that todo isn't processed
> until the loop runs without starting any qmail-remotes (meaning
> we're either at concurrency, or we have no more messages to deal with).

With or without big-todo, you risk ending up with a f*cking big todo
queue after that. Switching off todo-handling for a while,
automatically, sounds like a *very* bad idea to me.

Greetz, Peter.