My mail server handles about 50000 messages a day and sendmail version
is 8.12.10.
From one month sendmail continues to reject connections showing:
rejecting connections on daemon MTA: 150 children, max 150
I tried to increase MAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN from 50 to 150 but nothing !
What can you suggest me to debug and solve this problem ?
RICCARDO wrote:
> My mail server handles about 50000 messages a day and sendmail version
> is 8.12.10.
> From one month sendmail continues to reject connections showing:
>
> rejecting connections on daemon MTA: 150 children, max 150
>
> I tried to increase MAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN from 50 to 150 but nothing !
>
Tried a higher value then what its maxing out at? You said you increased it
from 50 to 150 so that should be clue.
On 4 Apr, 03:37, Scott Grayban
> RICCARDO wrote:
> > My mail server handles about 50000 messages a day and sendmail version
> > is 8.12.10.
> > From one month sendmail continues to reject connections showing:
>
> > rejecting connections on daemon MTA: 150 children, max 150
>
> > I tried to increase MAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN from 50 to 150 but nothing !
>
> Tried a higher value then what its maxing out at? You said you increased it
> from 50 to 150 so that should be clue.
This morning I see rejecting connections are reduced (about 300
against 1200 of last days).
But what happens if I increase sendmail childrens ? My mail server run
also other applications as Squid.
Load average is about 2.15.
RICCARDO wrote:
> On 4 Apr, 03:37, Scott Grayban
>> RICCARDO wrote:
>>> My mail server handles about 50000 messages a day and sendmail version
>>> is 8.12.10.
>>> From one month sendmail continues to reject connections showing:
>>> rejecting connections on daemon MTA: 150 children, max 150
>>> I tried to increase MAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN from 50 to 150 but nothing !
>> Tried a higher value then what its maxing out at? You said you increased it
>> from 50 to 150 so that should be clue.
>
> This morning I see rejecting connections are reduced (about 300
> against 1200 of last days).
> But what happens if I increase sendmail childrens ? My mail server run
> also other applications as Squid.
> Load average is about 2.15.
Get a better box then with more memory and faster core.
On 5 Apr, 02:31, Scott Grayban
> RICCARDO wrote:
> > On 4 Apr, 03:37, Scott Grayban
> >> RICCARDO wrote:
> >>> My mail server handles about 50000 messages a day and sendmail version=
> >>> is 8.12.10.
> >>> From one month sendmail continues to reject connections showing:
> >>> rejecting connections on daemon MTA: 150 children, max 150
> >>> I tried to increase MAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN from 50 to 150 but nothing !
> >> Tried a higher value then what its maxing out at? You said you increase=
d it
> >> from 50 to 150 so that should be clue.
>
> > This morning I see rejecting connections are reduced (about 300
> > against 1200 of last days).
> > But what happens if I increase sendmail childrens ? My mail server run
> > also other applications as Squid.
> > Load average is about 2.15.
>
> Get a better box then with more memory and faster core.
I monitored cpu and load average is low (2=F74) so I think problem is
Ram size ?
My top command shows :
11:10:29 up 295 days, 52 min, 3 users, load average: 3.44, 2.94,
2.53
166 processes: 164 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait
idle
total 12.1% 0.0% 12.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
75.7%
Mem: 1032748k av, 996528k used, 36220k free, 0k shrd,
91800k buff
377592k active, 569988k inactive
Swap: 3068372k av, 254108k used, 2814264k free
335900k cached
What do you think ? Free Ram is only 36220k