[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang crashing regularly

Aaron Paetznick aaronp at critd.com
Wed Mar 17 13:25:20 EST 2004


I have to use these settings as my volume is just that high.  I don't 
know how many emails it processes per day as I haven't installed a stats 
package yet, but it's a dual Xeon with 4GB RAM, and it's pretty much 
consumed.  It handles mail for some 10,000 mailboxes.


--Aaron



Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
> 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?
> 



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