Re: [courier-users] Re: courier tmp directory - with some diagnostic

[Sam V. <mr...@st...>]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Honza Mach wrote:

> Tell me for what is respawnlo good, please ?
> Because it seems it occures every hour. And this is that thing which
> stops message delivery!!!

I doubt it.  Respawnlo is the minimum automatic restart
interval.  Periodically, Courier restart itself.  This is one of the
factor in choosing when to go through a restart cycle.

> Problem is we are using 64kb/s wireless connection and this file size is
> around 10MB
> and I think that delivery can take longer than one hour !

Ah -- see, that's the problem.  If your bandwidth is 64K, you really have
no business receiving multimegabyte files.  submit allows for a maximum of
20 minutes to receive an E-mail message.  You are seeing the zombie
process because the 20 minute suicide watchdog timer goes off.  I can see
how this might result in some files not being cleaned up -- I'll make sure
that it gets fixed.

But your real problem is that you simply do not have sufficient resources
to handle multimegabyte e-mail messages, with your bandwidth.

-- 
Sam