> Yesterday 50K. (grep 'stat=Sent' /var/log/syslog.01 | wc). More actually > come in, of course..
I would need a total volume to comment. > 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. You have to limit your sendmail process. Figure that otherwise a DoS could take down your box. 200 simulataneous connections is fairly easy to do. > So you would do define(`confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN',`100'), or somesuch? And > what happens if someone hammers us? I would do: define(`confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN', `60')dnl and change that based on your actual volume. If you need more children, you need more memory. I generally like to have 40MB per sendmail process available which for 60 connections is about 2.4GB. Between, mimedefang and sendmail and spamd and mysql and procmail, etc. you can have a lot of programs working in concert to support 1 sendmail connection. This *is* elitist but memory is cheaper than my hourly rates. Regards, KAM _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
