From razor-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Mon Aug 26 15:21:59 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.netnoteinc.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phobos.labs.netnoteinc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8184A4416C for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 10:18:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from phobos [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 26 Aug 2002 15:18:16 +0100 (IST) Received: from usw-sf-list2.sourceforge.net (usw-sf-fw2.sourceforge.net [216.136.171.252]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7P5iQZ03081 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 06:44:26 +0100 Received: from usw-sf-list1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.13] helo=usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net) by usw-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17ipzM-0002Xw-00; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 22:31:04 -0700 Received: from longbow.wesolveit.com.au ([210.10.109.227]) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17ipyz-0006KN-00 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 22:30:41 -0700 Received: (qmail 25046 invoked from network); 25 Aug 2002 05:30:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO adamwin98se) (192.168.2.114) by 0 with SMTP; 25 Aug 2002 05:30:34 -0000 From: "Adam Goryachev" To: "Joe Berry" , Subject: RE: [Razor-users] Reducing impact from tons of email Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <969536713.20020824234409@topshot.com> X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Importance: Normal Sender: razor-users-admin@example.sourceforge.net Errors-To: razor-users-admin@example.sourceforge.net X-Beenthere: razor-users@example.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9-sf.net Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Original-Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 15:39:13 +1000 Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 15:39:13 +1000 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... Regards, Adam > -----Original Message----- > From: razor-users-admin@example.sourceforge.net > [mailto:razor-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Joe Berry > Sent: Sunday, 25 August 2002 1:44 PM > To: razor-users@example.sourceforge.net > 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? > > Any ideas would be welcome. > > Thanks, > Joe > --- > Joe Berry > joe@topshot.com > AIM "joe topshot" > Yahoo Msgr "joetopshot" > jabber "joetopshot@topshot.com" > Baltimore, MD > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old > cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! > https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 > _______________________________________________ > Razor-users mailing list > Razor-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? 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