Max Children and List Server Lagging

[Glenn Steen]

On 16/11/06, Raymond Dijkxhoorn <raymond at prolocation.net> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > I just installed a couple days ago MailWatch for my MailScanner box.. great
> > tool.
> >
> > However, I've noticed now that I can see the # of children MailScanner has
> > running that it seems to be ignoring my Max Children setting.
> >
> > I have Max Children set to "5", but recently we were doing a large mailing
> > (we house a few mailing lists) and I noticed that it said there were 20+
> > SendMail procs and 11 MailScanner children.
>
> I have seen this also where a box started swapping like crazy, the max MS
> # was set to 10, but if i was looking i had at least 30 MS childeren in
> the SA stage...
>
> Julian, does this sound familliar?
>
> Bye,
> Raymond.
"Worker" processes? Doing BL lookups?
After all the Max Children are more like "pre-fork this amount of
children, and let them hav as many worker-children as they need"...
<insert usual disclaimer: I might be totally off on this (too:-)>

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