[Mimedefang] memory leak?

[Ron Peterson]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:

> 200+ sendmail processes?
> 
> And you get 30K emails per day???

Yesterday 50K.  (grep 'stat=Sent' /var/log/syslog.01 | wc).  More actually
come in, of course..
 
> Lower your max sendmail processes to like 60 max and your mimedefang min
> children to 15 and the max to 61.

I haven't limited my sendmail processes.  At the time this happened, I had
min slaves set to 15, and max slaves set to 50.

> With 60 max sendmails, I know we run stable servers that handle 150K emails
> a day.

There were 200+ sendmail processes (ps -eo args | grep sendmail | wc) with
max slaves set to 50.  The box is configured as our mail gateway (it's the
first MX record).  A different machine serves as the mail hub.

> I think you are just spiralling the box out of memory into swap.

So you would do define(`confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN',`100'), or somesuch?  And
what happens if someone hammers us?

_________________________
Ron Peterson
Network & Systems Manager
Mount Holyoke College