Re: limiting number of procmail processes running

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 08:05:05PM +0200, Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote:

> > from what I can tell, a practical limit of running processes is
> > somewhere in the order of five to 10 processes at one time.
> Suggestion: use a global lockfile named with the most volatile 
> digit of the time.
>
>   :0
>   * ^From .*:..:.\/.
>   { LOCKFILE = $HOME/pm$MATCH$LOCKEXT }
Interesting.  We can hard-anchor the condition on the left:

    * ^^From .*:..:.\/.

-- 
Dallman

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