[Mimedefang] tmpfs on Linux

[Greg Miller]

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 11:17 -0500, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
> Let's say you are running 40 sendmails.  That should take about 120MB of 
> ram.  To run 40 sendmails, you need 10 to 15 mimedefangs running eating up 
> say 400 to 600MB of RAM as a guess.  Add a 128MB tmpfs and you are using a 
> lot of RAM.

You're absolutely right. I will double the amount of RAM first off.
> 
> How large is your bayesian and whitelist files?  What else is running on the 
> box?

Currently not using bayesian or whitelist. This is a dedicated sendmail
box.
> 
> I think you should look into the 15-20 sendmail realm and you'll be much 
> better off.
> 

How would you suggest I do this? I have tried setting MaxDaemonChildren
to 20, but those quickly get eaten up and I just end up refusing lots of
mail. What is the recommended course of action in this case?

> If you scale the numbers above to 50 or 100 sendmails, you are just swapping 
> out of RAM.

True. Maybe we should just stop this email business. It's just a fad,
right? :)

-- 
Greg Miller, RHCE, CCNA, MCSE
Senior Network Specialist
University of Richmond
gmiller at richmond.edu
(804) 289-8546