On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Matias Lopez Bergero wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I was very happy using SpamAssassin at my email server (Xeon 2.8GHz, 1.5
> GB memory, Dual Ultra SCSI HD 73.4GB in RAID 1, Linux 2.4.33)
>
> There are only 2500 email boxes at the server. The server is running:
> Sendmail, SpamAssassin 3.1.5 (using milter-spamc), ClamAV (using
> clamav-milter), Apache 1.3.x, SquirrelMail, pop3, etc.
>
> The server shows a table of ~1700 processes and about ~800 tcp sessions
> (sendmail and milter-spamc most) during this bursts. This seems to
> prevent other users from connecting to the server in order to use pop3
> or smtp services.
With all those services running on that box your 1.5GB isn't enough
to service 800 incoming simultanious connects. Either throw more RAM
at it or edit your sendmail config to limit the number of incoming
connections. Use the sendmail 'MaxDaemonChildren' and
'ConnectionRateThrottle' options to limit incoming connects.
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Dave Funk University of Iowa
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319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center
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