Massive Problems (lmtp, db corruption) - Ahh!

[Rob Siemborski]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Su Li wrote:

> That will limit the number of lmtpd for sure. I tested with 10000 users
> and send email at 15 msg/sec. No problem found.

I agree, though I want to say it will limit all other processes as well
(though, you're the one who has tried this in practice, and don't seem to
have this problem).

> One more thing, the default maxchild is a number bigger thatn 200,000. I
> don't think any normal machine can handle that. We need to config the
> maxchild before it run.

I don't think that "unlimited" is an unreasonable default value for a
process count limit.

-Rob

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