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> >From the draft 1.8b release notes:
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> - (non-VM) New SMTP_RESET_EVERY configuration option: this option directs
> LISTSERV to drop its outbound SMTP connections at regular intervals.
> The value of the keyword is the number of minutes between each forced
> timeout. This option may be useful if you are using sendmail as a mail
> delivery agent. On an active system, there may be enough traffic to
> keep the connections active 24 hours a day. The size of the sendmail
> process driving the connection appears to grow with time, with observed
> values of a dozen megabytes after a week of activity, presumably due to
> storage fragmentation. Since this is the process from which all the
> delivery subprocesses are forked, the sendmail processes get bigger
> with time, and some customers have reported increased swap rates as a
> result. Resetting the connection regularly (say every 8h) prevents this
> phenomenon.
>
> I will update this paragraph with your figures :-)
>
> Eric
>
Hmm, either (a) SMTP_RESET_EVERY is not supported in 1.8b-Beta or more
likely (b) I've done a really miserable job of guessing the syntax of
the operation.
I put SMTP_RESET_EVERY="4h" in go.user and no effect. I also tried
SMTP_RESET_EVERY="4" to no avail. I'm starting to develop a strong
dislike for sendmail. :-(
Glenn A. Malling <[log in to unmask]>
Syracuse University Computing Services +1 (315) 443-4111
220 Machinery Hall Syracuse, New York 13244-1260
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