On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 11:17 -0500, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > Let's say you are running 40 sendmails. That should take about 120MB of > ram. To run 40 sendmails, you need 10 to 15 mimedefangs running eating up > say 400 to 600MB of RAM as a guess. Add a 128MB tmpfs and you are using a > lot of RAM.
You're absolutely right. I will double the amount of RAM first off. > > How large is your bayesian and whitelist files? What else is running on the > box? Currently not using bayesian or whitelist. This is a dedicated sendmail box. > > I think you should look into the 15-20 sendmail realm and you'll be much > better off. > How would you suggest I do this? I have tried setting MaxDaemonChildren to 20, but those quickly get eaten up and I just end up refusing lots of mail. What is the recommended course of action in this case? > If you scale the numbers above to 50 or 100 sendmails, you are just swapping > out of RAM. True. Maybe we should just stop this email business. It's just a fad, right? :) -- Greg Miller, RHCE, CCNA, MCSE Senior Network Specialist University of Richmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] (804) 289-8546 _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
