Re: 2.0a16 bug report

From: Craig A Summerhill <craig_at_cni.org_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 15:35:54 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <9903292035.AA22228_at_a.cni.org>


On 27 Mar 1999, Glen Stewart <hypermail_www_at_associate.com> wrote: 

>

> Lastly, I'd like to highly recommend changing the LOCK file timeout
> from 1 hour to 60 seconds. When a huge rush of mail comes in for any
> single mailbox, all the HyperMail processes stack up and contend for
> output, but they only cycle once an hour. Cycling once/minute has
> been VERY effective here.

I agree that one hour is probably too long for lists which have a large traffic level. How much work would it be to make this a configurable variable which could be set in the .hmrc file? 

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