[Mimedefang] Memory usage/number of slave processes

Steffen Kaiser skmimedefang at smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de
Wed Aug 20 02:06:02 EDT 2003


On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, John Scully wrote:

> spammassassin on a similar platform.  What kind of load can it handle,
> and how many slaves does it peak at?  I am concerned that I have
> something configured wrong causing extra delays.
>
> Also, what are you doing to throttle load?  Limiting child processes in
> sendmail.cf?

Well, in my setup I found that a local caching name demon and user
database speed up things dramatically, but nscd was counterproductive.
I'm not running DCC, though.

Bye,

-- 
Steffen Kaiser



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