Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 11 Nov 2000 13:40:42 +0000 (UTC) | From | "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <> | Subject | Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue |
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jmerkey@timpanogas.org (Jeff V. Merkey) writes:
>We got to the bottom of the sendmail problem. The line:
> -O QueueLA=20
>and
> -O RefuseLA=18
>Need to be cranked up in sendmail.cf to something high since the >background VM on a very busy Linux box seems to exceed this which causes >large emails to get stuck in the /var/spool/mqueue directory for long >periods of time. Since vger is getting hammered with FTP all the time, >and is rarely idle. This also explains what Richard was seeing with VM >thrashing in a box with low memory.
So what? This is written in the documentation of the program? You do read documentation, do you?
>The problem of dropping connections on 2.4 was related to the O RefuseLA >settings. The defaults in the RedHat, Suse, and OpenLinux RPMs are >clearly set too low for modern Linux kernels. You may want them cranked >up to 100 or something if you want sendmail to always work.
These settings are for single user / small user numbers boxes.
If you're using an out of the vendor box distribution configuration for a high traffic server, you're nuts. Or ignorant. Or dumb. Or your consultant is an idiot.
Regards Henning
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