Problem with splitted messages

[Ken Anderson]

Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:

> Hi!
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>>Nice call, I noticed the same behavior and had to back off splitting
>>messages with Sendmail before MailScanner had a chance to process them.
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> Uhm i also do splitting, on a high volume server. I didnt see this. could
> it be due to a sendmail version? Just asking since i didnt encounter this.

I didn't see it either. :-)
When you ls -l in /var/spool/mqueue.in, do you see numbers > 1 in the
second column?

We are using 8.12.9 on 2 high volume servers (300k msgs/day each) and it
creates the hard links. It's not been a significant problem here though
because we limit maxrecipients to reasonable number and we run 10 MS
children and 2gb of RAM, so MS keeps up fine.

Still, it's clearly a performance issue. Julian is looking into the
locking code in MS to see if the df files could use a shared lock, which
would eliminate the problem. Alternately, sendmail could probably be
made to write the df files AS files.

Ken A
Pacific.Net


> Bye,
> Raymond.
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