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Re: removing greylist.db to start

2006-10-13 by hwdahm

1) unlimited
2) no SPF

I think, something is eating up my memory. I can see "VM: killing
process sendmail" in my log, so I suppose, the memory is the
bottleneck. Would it be helpful to limit the sendmail processes by
e.g. MaxDaemonChildren?

Sorry to ask dumb questions but I am new to sendmail and greylisting
with sendmail (more experienced with other mta;-)

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@...> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 06:26:13AM -0000, hwdahm wrote:
> > In this case I have to kill the milter-process and then restart is
fine.
> > I suppose there is a lack of memory but things like free or top show a
> > healthy state. greylist.db is about 80MB. Any hints how I can track
> > down the problem?
> 
> 1) you hit a memory limit (set with limit/ulimit)
> 2) you use DNSRBL or SPF and you linked with a thread-unsafe DNS
resolver
> 
> > Is the new 3.04rc the better choice and stable enough to use in
> > production server?
> 
> I use it on a pair of production MX.
> 
> -- 
> Emmanuel Dreyfus
> manu@...
>

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