From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2008 - 12:54:28 CST

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Noel Jones:
> Egoitz Aurrekoetxea wrote:
> > Yes, adjust the maxproc column in master.cf <http://master.cf> to
> > adjust the total number of daemons a particular transport can spawn.
> > If the maxproc column is "-", then default_process_limit is used.
> >
> >
> > Ok but this couldn't cause that if for example you have 20 messages to
> > be redirected for a transport (by the queue manager) and only 4
> > transport proccesses, it couldn't cause timeouts because you process 4
> > by 4?
>
> No, reducing the maxproc column in master.cf will not create
> errors regardless of the number of messages in the queue that
> will use that transport.

I agree, assuming that he is talking about a small number of sending
processes.

If, on the other hand, he is talking about a small number of
receiving processes, then it is very well possible that a sending
process times out while it is waiting for a receiving process to
become available.

I'm not sure that he is using Postfix terminology correctly.

        Wietse

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