[Mimedefang] My CFO keeps crashing Mimedefang. (Actually, qmail does...)

[Kevin A. McGrail]

I typically set the following:

In sendmail:
          define(`confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN', `12')dnl

In Filter:

 set MX_MINIMUM to the same as "define(`confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN', `12')"
above

 set MX_MAXIMUM to the one or two above "define(`confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN',
`12')" above

Assuming a 12 in sendmail are you recommending a 48 or 60 for the filter?

Regards,
KAM

> No.  If you do use MaxDaemonChildren (which could be abused), it should
> be a small multiple of the max slaves, like 4 or 5 times.  The reason
> is that most Sendmail daemons sit around waiting for network events;
> the mimedefang slaves are only busy when there's actually data to scan.