>>>>> "LW" == Loren Wilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I just noticed the --max-conn-per-child option in the spamd man page. >> While the description is fairly straightforward, I'm curious if anyone >> else is using this LW> Yes, many people >> , why, and if it's helped with spamd processes consuming RAM (which is >> what I'm trying to fix at the moment). LW> Which is why people are using it. In 3.0.1 and to a lesser extent in LW> 3.0.2, spamd children could get real fat and stay that way for a long LW> time, eating the machine for dinner. Setting max-con-per-child to a LW> lower number will make the fat kids die quicker, so there is much less LW> chance of them all being fat at once. LW> Depending on the weather, phase of the moon, amount of ram you have, LW> and other things, you may find limits from a couple hundred down to LW> about 5 to be appropriate. I'd probably suggest 100 to 50 as a good LW> starting range to play with. LW> Dont forget the -m option. If you have more than about 5 children LW> running and don't have a huge email flow you might do well to cut the LW> number of children down to the 3 to 10 range. Loren, What is considered "huge email flow" and what are appropriate values for connections and children? I have a home network and use it to host a mail server for my published domain. Almost 90% of the email received by my server is spam. A huge number of additional sendmail connections are rejected because of unknown users are other invalid crap. In the past 24 hours I received appx 1000 valid messages if which only appx 100 were non-spam. I received over 45000 invalid smtp connections over the same period. In order to sopy my server (running on old harware) from being brought to its knees, I use the following spamd/sendmail configuration: spamd: default number of children sendmail: daemon_children 25, rate_throttle 3, rcpt_throttle 3 Does this make sense? Should I (can I) reduce the numebr of sendmail children to better match spamd? Thanks for your help and insight. ...Jake -- Jake Colman Sr. Applications Developer Principia Partners LLC Harborside Financial Center 1001 Plaza Two Jersey City, NJ 07311 (201) 209-2467 www.principiapartners.com
