-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 08:57:25AM +0300, nikos wrote:
>Yesterday seemed that clamav-milter blocked sendmail and we couldn't send >any mails. >I receive the next message: >Sep 4 17:41:36 server clamav-milter[24326]: hit max-children limit (5 >= >5): waiting for some to exit >After restartarting milter everything worked fine. >Can someone explain what happened? What should I prevent? Increase the max number of children. Many spam bots connect to mail servers but their upload bandwidth is saturated, so they send really slow. The end result is that there are typically many connections that are taking up some of those children, even though they're not really contributing to system load (ie they're virtually idle). On my mail server right now there are 35 clamav-milter children, which means there are roughly 35 connections that are transferring email(s) into my server. *MOST* of them will be scored as spam and rejected. - -- Regards... Todd Exponential problems need logarithmic solutions. --Eddy Dreger Linux kernel 2.6.12-18mdksmp 2 users, load average: 0.55, 0.59, 1.10 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE/t0xY2VBGxIDMLwRAlc4AJ9rXWOv1hdgSsJG/z0wlv/G09L7FQCfTc/H wJCEUaJOgesTrY8NUbtiF7o= =4QLz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
