----- Original Message -----
From: "spamassassin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 10:23
Subject: server reached --max-clients setting, consider raising it
Hello
I'm new to spamassassin and need some help.
First spamassassin is version 3.0.1 on mac OSX 10.3.9 running on a
communigate server. I have an interface that we use call MPP which is
basically a webmin module to control spamassassin, clamav, mailshell, and
such. I have been getting some errors that we never received before.
(server reached --max-clients setting, consider raising it ). This is not
a very busy server and I don't know why we would be getting these errors.
I did some searching to avoid asking questions that have already been
answered but I'm still at a loss to figure out how to fix this. Here is a
bit from our log
Mar 6 10:04:51 localhost spamd[407]: spamd: server successfully spawned
child process, pid 585
Mar 6 10:04:51 localhost spamd[407]: prefork: child states: SSSSS
Mar 6 10:04:51 localhost spamd[407]: prefork: server reached --max-
clients setting, consider raising it
Mar 6 10:04:51 localhost spamd[407]: spamd: handled cleanup of child pid
581 due to SIGCHLD
Mar 6 10:04:51 localhost spamd[407]: prefork: child states: SSSS
Mar 6 10:04:51 localhost spamd[586]: setrgid() not implemented at /
usr/bin/spamd line 863.
Mar 6 10:04:51 localhost spamd[407]: spamd: server successfully spawned
child process, pid 586
Mar 6 10:04:51 localhost spamd[407]: prefork: child states: SSSSS
Mar 6 10:04:51 localhost spamd[407]: prefork: server reached --max-
clients setting, consider raising it
Mar 6 10:04:52 localhost spamd[407]: spamd: handled cleanup of child pid
582 due to SIGCHLD
Mar 6 10:04:52 localhost spamd[407]: prefork: child states: SSSS
Mar 6 10:04:52 localhost spamd[587]: setrgid() not implemented at /
usr/bin/spamd line 863.
Mar 6 10:04:52 localhost spamd[407]: spamd: server successfully spawned
child process, pid 587
Mar 6 10:04:52 localhost spamd[407]: prefork: child states: SSSSS
Mar 6 10:04:52 localhost spamd[407]: prefork: server reached --max-
clients setting, consider raising it
Mar 6 10:04:52 localhost spamd[407]: spamd: handled cleanup of child pid
583 due to SIGCHLD
Mar 6 10:04:52 localhost spamd[407]: prefork: child states: SSSS
Mar 6 10:04:52 localhost spamd[407]: spamd: server successfully spawned
child process, pid 588
Mar 6 10:04:52 localhost spamd[588]: setrgid() not implemented at /
usr/bin/spamd line 863.
Mar 6 10:04:52 localhost spamd[407]: prefork: child states: SSSSS
Mar 6 10:04:52 localhost spamd[407]: prefork: server reached --max-
clients setting, consider raising it
Mar 6 10:04:53 localhost spamd[407]: spamd: handled cleanup of child pid
586 due to SIGCHLD
Mar 6 10:04:53 localhost spamd[407]: prefork: child states: SSSS
On the message boards some have said this is a bug with max-clients
supposing to be max-children. I'm not sure where to make this change. I
tried in my local.cf file but got errors when I tried to lint. Any help
would be appreciated
It isn't a bug; it's a discrepancy between the error and the name of the
config directive. You'll looking for the -m (or --max-children) flag to
spamd. Try setting it higher. But, it looks like you have other problems
that I can't be of assistance with.
