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RE: [Razor-users] Reducing impact from tons of email
From razor-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net  Mon Aug 26 15:21:59 2002

See your /etc/sendmail.cf file, there are a number of methods for limiting
the number of concurrent sendmail processes, either by load average (I'm
sure), or concurrency (I think)... I use sendmail anymore (I use qmail) but
I'm sure that if you look in the config file, you will see what you need...
> [mailto:razor-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Joe Berry
> Subject: [Razor-users] Reducing impact from tons of email
> I'm not sure if this is really a razor problem/issue or a sendmail
> problem. Here's the scenario... My mail server is a 150mhz PC funning
> FreeBSD 4.4. Ordinarily, the machine is quite idle; it supports my
> wife's web site with Apache server running on it and a few other
> services (jabber, etc). Between the various members of our family, we
> get a fair amount of email coming in (mailing lists, etc). On
> occasion, our DSL-based ISP dies for a number of hours. When we get a
> reconnection to the Internet, I get a huge flow of emails coming in
> which are then filtered via razor. As a result, I will sometimes see
> over 20+ sendmail processes running at the same time after such an
> occasion. The machine is then REALLY slow.
> I noticed that my /etc/procmailrc file had had no arguments associated
> with the call to razor-check. There was something in the log, though,
> to make me suspicious that it was possibly not seeing all my razor
> files. So I have just added "-home /etc/razor" as an argument. I
> haven't had any down time since then so I cannot comment on whether
> this change has sped up my razor processing a noticable amount. (This
> paragraph may be an aside to my real problem, the first paragraph
> above; but I thought I should be complete in my description.)
> At any rate, has anyone else suffered from a backlog of email
> processing creating lots and lots of sendmail processes?  Is there,
> perhaps, a way to limit the number of sendmail processes?