We process a lot of email very stably on quite a few servers 20 Sendmail Processes a throttle of 10 connections per second 5 MD Slaves DFS recommends 3:1 or 4:1 sendmail to MD slaves
A machine with 2GB can probably scale well towards tripling or quadrupling this but I don't know what else you do on the machine. KAM > > > Is there a rule-of-thumb that can be used to determine the > > > correct size for a ramdisk to contain /var/spool/MIMEDefang? > > > > http://www.mimedefang.org/node.php?id=28 > > What would be a good guideline for the number of slaves relative to the > simultaneous sendmail connections? Do you have a guide for taking a system > with 2GB of RAM and allocating slaves, sendmail, etc. > > I've got a copy of âSendmail Performance Tuningâ on order, but how do I > tune it with MD included in the mix. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang

