jwm@SUN4.JHUAPL.EDU (James W. Meritt) (06/26/91)
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?
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jwm@sun4.jhuapl.edu or jwm@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu or meritt%aplvm.BITNETkyle@uunet.uu.net (Kyle Jones) (06/29/91)
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.