Hello,
I thought I set this in /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamd for RedHat Linux but
maybe I'm wrong. I see this about --max-children for spamd:
-m number , --max-children=number
This option specifies the maximum number of children to spawn.
Spamd will spawn that number of children, then sleep in the
background until a child dies, wherein it will go and spawn a new
child.
Incoming connections can still occur if all of the children are
busy, however those connections will be queued waiting for a free
child. The minimum value is 1, the default value is 5.
Please note that there is a OS specific maximum of connections
that can be queued (Try perl -MSocket -e'print SOMAXCONN' to find
this maximum).
Note that if you run too many servers for the amount of free RAM
available, you run the danger of hurting performance by causing a
high swap load as server processes are swapped in and out continually.
I did a perl -MSocket -e'print SOMAXCONN' on my system and I get 128.
Here is my option section of my spamd:
# Set default spamd configuration.
SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -m 20 -H"
SPAMD_PID=/var/run/spamd.pid
I'm still getting these error messages in my log:
server reached --max-children setting, consider raising it
Am I supposed to set it here or some other place? I see that
spamd.conf and it is supposed to be in /etc but I don't have
spamd.conf there so should I make one?
Thank you,
Frank
