[Mimedefang] Memory Limit Variables?

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Thu Apr 12 09:25:45 EDT 2007


Stephen Loeckle wrote:

> During busy times we receive around 300 a minute and on occasion we hit
> our 50 process limit. We frequently bring on new small businesses and
> I'd like to get this thing optimized without throwing money at it for
> ram, unless it's necessary.

It's probably necessary.  Limiting the memory size of a MIMEDefang slave
is unlikely to help throughput.  It just means that too-big slaves will
terminate and the message they were processing will tempfail.

How much RAM do you have in the machine?

Regards,

David.



More information about the MIMEDefang mailing list