[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang crashing regularly

[Lucas Albers]

It might be baye-learning is making mimedenfag make too many slaves.
I encountered this situation, but in my case it just stopped spawning slaves.

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SA will get a lock then Mimedefang will spawn a new slave, which can't get
a lock, which spawns a new slave,etc.

Aaron Paetznick said:
>
> 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.
>

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Luke Computer Science System Administrator
Security Administrator,College of Engineering
Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana