-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Steven Duckworth enscribed the following:
SD> SD> SD>I am having an issue with Sendmail (Version 8.12.6) throttling SD>connections. It is running on a Dell 2550 Server with RH8.0. Sendmail is SD>running fine, but from time to time we have large bursts of traffic to SD>student mailing lists on campus (Up to 6000 Students). When these bursts SD>occur, Sendmail throttles and sometimes dies. I am coming from a FreeBSD SD>background and initially had similar problems with Sendmail running on SD>it. The solution with FreeBSD was to modify the kernel, from the default SD>32 "MAXUSERS", to 256 "MAXUSERS". This modification allowed Sendmail to SD>spawn enough processed to accommodate the high mail rate without SD>choking. My Sendmail configuration is pretty much default with no SD>throttling or max child processes set. With this in mind, it seems the SD>issue is with the default OS/Kernel settings and not with Sendmail SD>itself. Does anyone have any advice on how I can accommodate these bursts SD>of email traffic? IMHO postfix is a better solution though you, and everyone else, may not want to hear that. In short postfix loads the box less and runs faster. - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], RHCE Instructor, Global Learning Services -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+AgjTYCtDlaj78K8RAsckAJ93grK9k80bNgu3olwaXVPcxq+NBACcCaDS bcNK8sbsKWrF5gcWPp7tHXg= =TzSr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
