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

[Honza M. <ma...@de...>]

Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

I've created file respawnlo with one line: 12h  it should handle it.

But:
> > 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.

Can I change watchdog timer or I have to only set sizelimit to let's say
5MB?

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

I doesn't matter about bandwidth because of it can be delivered durring
night or
it can take more time.


Thanks.

Honza Mach