[Pkg-exim4-users] multiple copies of exim4 running

[Johann Spies]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 05:22:39PM +0000, Gerard Hooton wrote:
> Can any one help me with this.
> The number of processes grows to a point where I get 
> "too many connections" messages in the log file and the server stops
> excepting emials.

This is normal.

I have just checked on one of our mail servers and 'ps aux | grep -c
[e]xim' shows '30'.

The 'too many connections' message in the log is just one of the
mechanisms to protect your system against overloading.  You can
specify how many connections you want to allow. 

Regards
Johann

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