On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 07:57:18 -0700 Amit Gupta <amit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My situation is that the number of mimedefang.pl processes jumps to > about 70 during peak loads (we are processing a couple hundres > messages per minute on average). How much RAM do you have? 70 parallel scanners is not outlandish on busy machines. Our biggest scanning machine is configured to allow up to 400 scanners. It's a pretty powerful machine with 48GB of RAM, though, and our volume is 5-10x yours. > I see you mentioned using embedded perl prevents > forking entire processes. No... it still forks each time, but it doesn't exec a new program. > So would my RAM requirements be reduced drastically? Probably not. As I said, embedded Perl helps a little bit, but not dramatically. Regards, Dianne. _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
