On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > 200+ sendmail processes? > > And you get 30K emails per day???
Yesterday 50K. (grep 'stat=Sent' /var/log/syslog.01 | wc). More actually come in, of course.. > Lower your max sendmail processes to like 60 max and your mimedefang min > children to 15 and the max to 61. I haven't limited my sendmail processes. At the time this happened, I had min slaves set to 15, and max slaves set to 50. > With 60 max sendmails, I know we run stable servers that handle 150K emails > a day. There were 200+ sendmail processes (ps -eo args | grep sendmail | wc) with max slaves set to 50. The box is configured as our mail gateway (it's the first MX record). A different machine serves as the mail hub. > I think you are just spiralling the box out of memory into swap. So you would do define(`confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN',`100'), or somesuch? And what happens if someone hammers us? _________________________ Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
