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Re: [milter-greylist] Re: removing greylist.db to start

2006-10-13 by Matthias Scheler

On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 12:03:39PM -0000, hwdahm wrote:
> 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?

Definitely. You risk your machine getting overloaded if you don't limit
the number of connections to your Sendmail. That was already a problem
with the spam load in the last century (I can remember having to
reconfigure a customer machine back then) and the situation only got
worse since then.

	Kind regards

-- 
Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/

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