Mailscanner stopped, sendmail running...

[Muhammad Nauman]

my systems TOP states :

top - 10:49:49 up 15:30,  4 users,  load average: 1.97, 2.28, 2.89
Tasks: 163 total,   3 running, 159 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s): 12.4% us,  5.2% sy,  0.0% ni, 73.9% id,  8.2% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.3% si
Mem:   2074908k total,  1978684k used,    96224k free,   142460k buffers
Swap:  2096472k total,      176k used,  2096296k free,  1159100k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
21894 root      16   0 59844  54m 3444 R  6.5  2.7   0:00.20 MailScanner
16415 root      15   0 60348  54m 3428 S  0.7  2.7   2:34.72 MailScanner
15394 root      16   0 57872  52m 3428 S  0.3  2.6   2:27.27 MailScanner

Its almost utilizing the complete MEM and there are some MailScanners 
process which are even 2:34 min LONG .

[root at machine]# less /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 4
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
stepping        : 1
cpu MHz         : 2994.204
cache size      : 1024 KB

How much RAM should i use for ramdisk (tmpfs) - can i work without it ?

i m currently having 7 child processes of MailScanner .in its conf file



> Have you read the documentation on tuning?
>
> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#optimization_tips
>
> use of memory isn't a problem (*nix will use spare memory as filesystem
> cache so when all the memory's used its not a bad sign). What is a bad 
> sign
> is high levels of swapping.
>
> 80k messages isn't high.
>>
>> >> Don't know, but remember that childs can sit there *very*
>> >> long. (hours)
>> > Arthur Sherman

Thanks and regards,
M.Nauman Habib
Network Engineer
ICT Department
WorldCALL Multimedia Pvt Ltd
16-S Gulberg II Lahore, Pakistan
Off: 92 (42) 5877051-55
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