[Mimedefang] too many mimedefang process

Muhammad Talha talha at worldcall.net.pk
Wed Apr 7 03:01:51 EDT 2004


i am not using rbls and baysesian

only using local rules . i have upgraded to linux kernel 2.4.25 now it seem
to working quite better

now i get these error type of error in mailllog

mimedefang[23565]: i376vAw5023564: smfi_chgheader returned MI_FAILURE
mimedefang[23565]: i376vAw5023564: smfi_addheader returned MI_FAILURE

Thanks and Regards


> it should be giving you some error messages in the logs.
> This will indicate why you have so many processeses.
>
> Are you using rbl's and bayesian learning?
> Either of these could be causing delays, which could cause you to spawn
> numerous md processes.
>
> Muhammad Talha said:
> > Dear all
> >
> > i facing there are too many mimedefang process . which slowing down my
> > machine Redhat 9
> >
> > i have setup 15 Slave processes in /etc/sysconfig/mimedefang
> >
> > MX_MINIMUM=2
> > MX_MAXIMUM=15
> >
> > it says
> >
> > [root at magic MIMEDefang]# pgrep mimedefang | wc -l
> >     222



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