[Mimedefang] problems with bayes (?) database access

alan premselaar alien at 12inch.com
Fri May 23 23:30:01 EDT 2003


On 5/24/03 2:25 AM, "Kelson Vibber" <kelson at speed.net> wrote:

...snip...

> 
> Check /etc/sysconfig/mimedefang and see if you have MX_MAX_AS defined.  Try
> removing it or increasing it.

Kelson,

thanks for the pointer, however, i don't have MX_MAX_AS defined in either my
/etc/sysconfig/mimedefang or /etc/init.d/sendmail (where i start/stop
mimedefang) files.
> 
> When I first activated Bayes on my setup, we had this problem so frequently
> that I wrote a cron job to check for errors in the log and automatically
> restart the multiplexor and delete the lock file.  Someone pointed out the
> memory issue, so I upped MX_MAX_AS to 120000 on April 14, and there haven't
> been any problems since.  It had been hitting at least daily before, and
> since then it hasn't even been triggered *once*.




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