[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang crashing regularly

[Aaron Paetznick]

Am am getting a lot of bayes locking errors as well.  Probably related. 
  Should the configuration options listed below help with bayes locking 
issues in a high-volume situation?


--Aaron



Lucas Albers wrote:
> 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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> #http://mail.stalker.com/Lists/CGatePro/Message/52889.html
> bayes_learn_to_journal 1
> bayes_journal_max_size 5120000
> 
> 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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