Re: amavisd-new & postfix: # of processes

From: Jonathan Nichols (no email)
Date: Fri Jul 02 2004 - 16:47:42 EDT


 wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
>
>
>>>>$max_servers = 350; # number of pre-forked children (default 2)
>>>>$max_requests = 800; # retire a child after that many accepts (default 10)
>>>
>>>
>>>These values are way too high.
>>>
>>
>>Lowered to 150 and 300, respectively.
>>
>
>
> Try $max_servers = 2-4 * number of physical CPUs. Content filters are
> usuaully CPU bound.
>

Ralf, Victor.. thanks again. I did reduce the number of amavisd
processes, and put the $TEMPDIR onto a RAM disk, and mail is flowing
quite nicely.

:D








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