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Re: Postfix overload on a Debian Server

From: mouss (usebsdfree.fr)
Date: Sun Oct 01 2006 - 07:20:50 CDT


Huby franck wrote:
>>
> I've tried with the defaults
> And with a limit of 50 for the smtp and the relay in the master.cf.
> In the twice my server freeze.
>
> For monitoring i've do :
> while 1
> do
> ps aux | grep smtp | wc -l
>

Nice try. Let me try too:

# ps -aux | grep smtp
... /usr/pkg/sbin/clamsmtpd -p /var/run/clamsmtpd.pid
...

Find a better way to count your postfix processes...
Try grep "^postfix" if these processes run as postfix, and no other
processes run as postfix.