On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 16:03 +0100, John Horne wrote: > > > The server has 2GB of ram. It runs an MTA and SA, but does not do virus > checking. I only installed 3.1.4 yesterday, so it is a little early to > say if there are problems. However, I am seeing in the logs messages > like these: > > Sep 6 15:58:11 tracy spamd[13052]: prefork: server reached > --max-children setting, consider raising it > > SA seems to indicate that the value should be raised rather than > lowered. > Actually these messages seem to be a bit confusing. The log shows:
Sep 6 16:05:39 tracy spamd[13052]: prefork: child states: KKKKKKBB Sep 6 16:05:39 tracy spamd[13052]: prefork: server reached --max-children setting, consider raising it Which seems to indicate that 2 children are busy but 6 have been killed. Why should I then raise the value? Surely it should just restart one of the killed children? If it said 'BBBBBBBB' then I would understand it suggesting to raise the value. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839
