On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:35:50AM -0500, Javier López said:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed clamav / clamav-milter on a sendmail server with HIGH
> trafic. It worked well most of the time, but on peak hours (more than
> 600 concurrent connections per server and 200K mail per hour) the
> clamav-milter thorws these errors on the syslog and slows down the
> process:
> 
> Dec  8 11:30:14 rssmtprelay1 clamav-milter[9347]: ClamAv:
> thread_create() failed: 12, try again
> Dec  8 11:30:15 rssmtprelay1 clamav-milter[9347]: ClamAv:
> thread_create() failed: 12, try again
> Dec  8 11:30:15 rssmtprelay1 clamav-milter[9347]: hit max-children limit
> (95 >= 95): waiting for some to exit
> 
> Please I need to resolv this problem.

You are passing the '--max-children 95' parameter to the milter, so it
doesn't create new children if 95 are already running.  You should think
about whether you want more than 95 concurrent milter threads, and if you
do, raise the max-children parameter.
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