At 01:09 PM 10.9.2006 -0500, David B Funk wrote: >On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Matias Lopez Bergero wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> I was very happy using SpamAssassin at my email server (Xeon 2.8GHz, 1.5 >> GB memory, Dual Ultra SCSI HD 73.4GB in RAID 1, Linux 2.4.33) >> >> There are only 2500 email boxes at the server. The server is running: >> Sendmail, SpamAssassin 3.1.5 (using milter-spamc), ClamAV (using >> clamav-milter), Apache 1.3.x, SquirrelMail, pop3, etc. >> > >> The server shows a table of ~1700 processes and about ~800 tcp sessions >> (sendmail and milter-spamc most) during this bursts. This seems to >> prevent other users from connecting to the server in order to use pop3 >> or smtp services. > >With all those services running on that box your 1.5GB isn't enough >to service 800 incoming simultanious connects. Either throw more RAM >at it or edit your sendmail config to limit the number of incoming >connections. Use the sendmail 'MaxDaemonChildren' and >'ConnectionRateThrottle' options to limit incoming connects. > >-- >Dave Funk University of Iowa
I haven't seen mention of adding more mail queues for sendmail's use. I run several busy mail discussion lists + some fairly large customer mail lists -- in additon to my user traffic. I increased the number of queues (x10 then x20) and saw a blazing jump in speed. Something to consider....??? (^_^) Happy trails, Jack L. Stone System Admin Sage-american
