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Re: [cobalt-users] Sendmail Overload - HELP!



On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Don Chumsai wrote:

> I just put in a new RaQ4R - 512M Ram for mail and DNS only, but it seems that it can't handle the load of 1000 users checking their mail via POP3.  Sendmail is crashing pretty frequently and the only thing for me to do is kill the process and restart it.
>
> Any ideas?
> --

Hi I found I had to tweak sendmail.cf a bit but I m not sure of your load
avaerages

anyway if you have a little spare
do this to sendmail.cf and restart

increase  all these
# load average at which we just queue messages
O QueueLA=15

# load average at which we refuse connections
O RefuseLA=20

# maximum number of children we allow at one time
O MaxDaemonChildren=12

eg

O QueueLA=25
O RefuseLA=40
O MaxDaemonChildren=24
is what I use