OT: limit idle time in sendmail

[Jim Dickenson]

I have sendmail configured to limit the number of children to 150. What I am
seeing is most of the children are dealing with connections that get opened
but not closed. This causes sendmail to reject connections because the limit
of children has been reached. Is there any option to limit how long a child
will leave the connection open basically in idle state?

These have been around for about an hour:

root      6287  3674  0 05:54 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: server
[221.233.250.108] cmd read
root      6288  3674  0 05:54 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: server
[59.39.215.19] cmd read
root      6307  3674  0 05:54 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: server
[219.131.108.243] cmd read

Thanks for any ideas.
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Jim Dickenson
mailto:dickenson at cfmc.com

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