[Mimedefang] MySQL Greylisting - server has gone away

[Matthew Schumacher]

Paul Murphy wrote:
> 
> Note that this only happens on very low volume servers or where you have many
> more slaves than you actually need - if each of your slaves can be guaranteed
> to process one connection every 8 hours, you'll never see this!  In my case,
> I have a small system at home using 5 slaves and which receives about 120
> connections per day, almost all of which are between 0700 and 2300, so some
> of the slaves will be idle for longer than 8 hours overnight.
>

You may consider cutting back to two slaves to save system memory.  You
certainly don't need 5 slaves with this mail load.

schu