[Mimedefang] Killing Slave Question
David F. Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Wed Feb 26 11:40:01 EST 2003
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Bob Robichaud wrote:
> My server has 512 MB RAM
> I noticed sometimes I am running 8 slaves. Do I have sufficient memory.
Yes. My rule of thumb is 16MB/slave, so you should easily handle
up to 32 slaves.
> I also noticed that most slaves are being killed do to idle timeout.
> I'm guessing this is the idleTime setting set to default of 300
> seconds. This would suggest to me that I am getting hit with peaks
> of volume that requires 8 slaves, but most of them are killed soon after.
Right.
> Is 300 seconds a reasonable time in my situation or should I be killing them
> sooner.
You could increase the timeout or (as Stephano McGee suggested) set
MX_MIN_SLAVES to 8 so you always have 8 slaves running.
Tuning MIMEDefang is fairly tricky; unless your server is showing signs
of strain, I wouldn't even bother.
--
David.
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