Milter-greylist

Jonas Israelsson wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am trying to implement milter-greylist at a quite high mail volume site. In peak we have about 12 mails a second and a total of about 500.000 mails / day.
>
> The greylist daemon seem to last for about 10 minutes or so before the following errors pop up on the log..
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> Aug 31 16:24:38 7800005 sendmail[14741]: [ID 801593 mail.error] l7VEOS0D014741: Milter (greylist): timeout before data read, where=negotiate
> Aug 31 16:24:38 7800005 sendmail[14741]: [ID 801593 mail.info] l7VEOS0D014741: Milter (greylist): to error state
> Aug 31 16:24:38 7800005 sendmail[14741]: [ID 801593 mail.error] l7VEOS0D014741: Milter (greylist): init failed to open
> Aug 31 16:24:38 7800005 sendmail[14741]: [ID 801593 mail.info] l7VEOS0D014741: Milter (greylist): to error state
>
> Does this mean the milter daemon simply cant cope ?
>
> In busy hours we have about 400 sendmail children running.
>
> The Machine is a Quad Cpu AMD-64 (extra all) with 4 GB memory running Solars 10, and yes I have compiled 64 bit binarys. 
>
> Is there anyone out there with experiences using milter-greylist in a  site with similar volumes ? 
>
> Tia.
>
> // Jonas Israelsson
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>
>   

We're not as busy as you, we only see about 300 sendmail processes 
running at a time. I did run into issues with it dumping out to file way 
too often. I increased that time and have not seen any issues since.