thanks
it's how I actually expected it to function
too bad it's the misleading responses the ones that come up first
dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henning Brauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: multiple qmail-send
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:52:06PM +0200, Lukas Beeler wrote:
> > At 21:40 18.07.2001 +0200, Daniel BODEA wrote:
> > >Can there be, in the normal flow of qmail, multiple instances of
> > >qmail-send running at the same time (?)
> > yes of course... what do you think is the concurrency limit for ?
> > exactly that
>
> WRONG. There is always _one_ qmail-send.
> concurrencylocal -> max concurrent qmail-local processes
> concurrencyremote -> max concurrent qmail-remote processes
> 1 -> qmail-send process
>
> > > because multithreaded it's not, and I haven't seen any locking
> > > mechanisms for the ressources qmail-send accesses directly.
> > each of those processes send ONE individual message.. so there isn't any
> > locking machanism needed
>
> WRONG.
> This is true for qmail-local/qmail-remote, but not for the queue manager
> qmail-send.
>
> > and in future, please write text/plain and not text/html
>
> ACK.
>
> And you... well, I'd not answer questions here if I am not sure. No
offense
> intended, it just confuses.
>
> For the original question:
> 1 qmail-send -> 1 queue
>
> You can install more than one qmail instace per machine, e. g. in
> /var/qmail/1/, 2/ and so on. Change conf-home and make setup check for
each
> instance. You have multiple queues then and must find a solution to
balance
> the load between them.
>
> --
> * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de *
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> Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.
> (Dennis Ritchie)
>
