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

[Johann Spies]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:35:08AM +0000, Gerard Hooton wrote:
> Thanks Johann for you reply,
> My understanding is that for each connection a new exim4 process is started.
> When the connection is dropped (completed the delivery of a message to the
> server for example) then
> that process should die ?? It would appear that on my system the process
> remains after the connection drops.
> Is my understanding on this correct?

You will see separate processes of exim like this:

2287 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q1m
 2289 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q1m
 2291 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q1m
 2296 ttyp2    S+     0:00  |   \_ grep exim
29446 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 1LMLKK-0007es-NQ
30092 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 1LMLKK-0007es-NQ
 2147 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 1LMLP9-0000YV-Ma
 2150 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/exim4 -Mc 1LMLP9-0000YV-Ma

The ones with the -bd -q1m are the daemons.  The others are instances
handling specific messages.  You can see what exim is doing running
'exiwhat'.

> 
> Also, where do specify how many connections I want to allow?
> I have split config files on my debian server.

Search Exim's spec.txt.gz for smtp_accept_max and you will find your
answers.

Regards
Johann

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