[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang crashing regularly

[Kevin A. McGrail]

77 slaves?  How much memory do you have on this machine?

I'd estimate a guess on the order of 3GB minimum needed to make this work,
maybe more.

I think you need to look at lowering your sendmail processes and your
mimedefang mins/max to much more reasonable levels.

How many emails are you doing per day approximately and how much RAM do you
have in this box?

Regards,

KAM

> MIMEDefang has been crashing on me fairly regularly and it's driving me
> bonkers.  Basically it goes "to error state" and doesn't recover.  I
> have a script watching the logfile, and when there is a problem MD gets
> automatically restarted, but when this happens it won't start up again
> until I manually remove the /var/lock/subsys/mimedefang file.  Here's a
> clip from /var/log/maillog from when this last happened.  I would
> consider increasing the children, except my MX_MAXIMUM is already set to
> 80.  I just now increased the MX_REQUESTS to 500, but I'm not confident
> that that will help too much.  Any ideas?  This is MD v2.41, SA v2.63 +
> the usual suspects on RHEL 3.0 with perl v5.8.3.  Thanks.