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Article #3800Re: nice sendmail
From: Kyle Jones
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1991 20:17
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1991 20:17
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jwm@SUN4.JHUAPL.EDU (James W. Meritt) writes: > me a dozen email messages surge through at once, each one starts a > sendmail process. In quick order everything ELSE drags to a stop. > > Like now. :-( > > Is there a way to set things up so that the sendmail processes initiated by > incoming email is nice'd? Use two instantiations of sendmail: sendmail -bd to handle SMTP and sendmail -q15m to run the queue periodically. Start the sendmail -bd with whatever nice value you think is appropriate.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!alberta!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uunet!uunet!kyle From: kyle@uunet.uu.net (Kyle Jones) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: nice sendmail Message-ID: <1991Jun28.201746.7430@uunet.uu.net> Date: 28 Jun 91 20:17:46 GMT References: <9106252102.AA05168@sun4.jhuapl.edu> Organization: UUNET Communications Services Lines: 12