> >From the draft 1.8b release notes: > > - (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