[Mimedefang] Memory Limit Variables?

Stephen Loeckle sloeckle at lucidnetworks.net
Mon Apr 16 15:39:40 EDT 2007


Ok I think I am almost there on this setting. As a stop gap until I  
get more memory in this box, when I turn on queuing, should I leave my  
mimedefang process limit at 50 or lower it and leave sendmail at 50?  
And how many queues should I allow it to use?

Thanks,

Stephen

Quoting "David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com>:

> Stephen Loeckle wrote:
>
>> Oh one question: Are the numbers below saying this is the equivilent of
>> having 200 single queue md slaves?
>
> Not at all.  The queue mechanism is an emergency measure.  If your
> server is *occasionally* overloaded, queueing requests can help it process
> a bit more mail than it otherwise might have.  If your server is
> *usually* going into queue-request mode, then it is overloaded and
> queueing won't help all that much.
>
> Regards,
>
> David.




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