Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!alberta!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uunet!uunet!kyle
From: kyle@uunet.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: nice sendmail
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.201746.7430@uunet.uu.net>
Date: 28 Jun 91 20:17:46 GMT
References: <9106252102.AA05168@sun4.jhuapl.edu>
Organization: UUNET Communications Services
Lines: 12

jwm@SUN4.JHUAPL.EDU (James W. Meritt) writes:
 > me a dozen email messages surge through at once, each one starts a
 > sendmail process.  In quick order everything ELSE drags to a stop.
 > 
 > Like now.   :-(
 > 
 > Is there a way to set things up so that the sendmail processes initiated by
 > incoming email is nice'd?

Use two instantiations of sendmail:  sendmail -bd to handle SMTP
and sendmail -q15m to run the queue periodically.  Start the
sendmail -bd with whatever nice value you think is appropriate.