On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 03:47:22PM +, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> The Postfix "sitting there doing nothing" problem is not new, that's
> what got me on the list posting comments and patches in June of 2001.
For the record, it was July.
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2001-07/
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:40:38AM +0200, Patrik Rak wrote:
> On 15.5.2013 20:30, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> >Patrik appears to have a source of mail that will never be delivered.
> >He does not want to run a huge number of daemons; that is just
> >wasteful. Knowing that some mail will never clear
Patrik Rak:
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> On 16.5.2013 13:13, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> > You can try. I hope you can also document the result! Neither
>
> I'll do my best. Fortunately it seems this knob is pretty
> straightforward to explain to the end users.
>
> > Victor
On 16.5.2013 13:13, Wietse Venema wrote:
You can try. I hope you can also document the result! Neither
I'll do my best. Fortunately it seems this knob is pretty
straightforward to explain to the end users.
Victor nor I have been able to fully absorb the subtle details
of nqmgr in a reasona
Patrik Rak:
> On 15.5.2013 20:30, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> > Patrik appears to have a source of mail that will never be delivered.
> > He does not want to run a huge number of daemons; that is just
> > wasteful. Knowing that some mail will never clear the queue, he just
> > doesn't want such mail
On 15.5.2013 20:30, Wietse Venema wrote:
Patrik appears to have a source of mail that will never be delivered.
He does not want to run a huge number of daemons; that is just
wasteful. Knowing that some mail will never clear the queue, he just
doesn't want such mail to bog down other deliveries.
On 15.5.2013 19:04, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
My issue with 60:1 is not with the latency ratio, but with the
assumption that there is an unlimited supply of such mail to soak
up as many delivery agents as one may wish to add. In practice
the input rate of such mail is finite, if the output rate (v
On 15.5.2013 17:44, Wietse Venema wrote:
What I recall is that queue lengths depend not only on AVERAGE
arrival rates. The variations in arrival rates make a huge difference,
as experienced daily with queues before ladies' bathrooms (yes I
am aware that ladies, unlike email, don't back off expo
