--max-children setting, consider raising it> > I'm still getting these error messages in my log: > > > server reached --max-children setting, consider raising it >
You get that message if your spamd has less children than you mail server has smtp threads. I have only --max-children 2 and the limit gets hit very often.. But I don't care. Each spamd child takes his part of RAM and I'm not willing to give them more than 2. Mail just gets serialized, but it gets done too. You can lower you mail server threads, or raise your --max-children.. it all depends how much ram you have. But SpamAssassin certainly works fine while those messages get logged. When max-children setting is reached, the messages are put in queue, and server later when childs are ready.
