Simon Byrnand said: > > So quickly that it makes me suspicious as to what was REALLY > >wrong. Maybe something more than just load, or RBL problems. Maybe a > >locking problem. > > Nope, this is a problem with stock installs of sendmail/procmail and/or a > lack of memory. How much memory does the server have ? Roughly how many > messages a day do you process ? > > In your sendmail.cf you'll want to tune: > > QueueLA > RefuseLA > MaxDaemonChildren > ConnectionRateThrottle > > of course what you tune them to depends on the specs of your server.
BTW, postfix has a very nice solution -- you tell it how many concurrent local delivery processes you want to support, and it limits itself to that. That doesn't effect how many postfix SMTP listeners, queue processors, remote-delivery processes, etc. are run A lot cleaner than sendmail's load-average stuff, which is a bit too reactive for my taste ;) --j. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
