[Mimedefang] Using a RamDisk with Mimedefang

[David F. Skoll]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 WBrown at e1b.org wrote:

> What would be a good guideline for the number of slaves relative to the
> simultaneous sendmail connections? Do you have a guide for taking a system
> with 2GB of RAM and allocating slaves, sendmail, etc.

My rule of thumb (which I more or less sucked out of thin air...) is:

- Maximum of 1 slave for every 20MB of RAM.  So 2GB would be 100 slaves.
- Around 2-3 Sendmail children per slave before you start having problems.

You can let the system run for a while and then run:

	md-mx-ctrl histo

to see how many slaves are actually required.

Regards,

David.