It might be baye-learning is making mimedenfag make too many slaves. I encountered this situation, but in my case it just stopped spawning slaves.
#http://mail.stalker.com/Lists/CGatePro/Message/52889.html bayes_learn_to_journal 1 bayes_journal_max_size 5120000 SA will get a lock then Mimedefang will spawn a new slave, which can't get a lock, which spawns a new slave,etc. Aaron Paetznick said: > > MIMEDefang has been crashing on me fairly regularly and it's driving me > bonkers. Basically it goes "to error state" and doesn't recover. I > have a script watching the logfile, and when there is a problem MD gets > automatically restarted, but when this happens it won't start up again > until I manually remove the /var/lock/subsys/mimedefang file. Here's a > clip from /var/log/maillog from when this last happened. I would > consider increasing the children, except my MX_MAXIMUM is already set to > 80. I just now increased the MX_REQUESTS to 500, but I'm not confident > that that will help too much. Any ideas? This is MD v2.41, SA v2.63 + > the usual suspects on RHEL 3.0 with perl v5.8.3. Thanks. > -- Luke Computer Science System Administrator Security Administrator,College of Engineering Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
