[vPostMaster] Odd Error - FollowUp

[Scott Kleihege]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:06:01AM -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
>I did not get any bad exit status errors in the last 24 hours, I did get:
>
>   /usr/lib/vpostmaster/postfix/vpm-pfpolicy: process id 28791: command
>time limit exceeded : 2 Time(s)
>
>I'm beginning to think this is nothing to worry about, perhaps just a
>"busy machine" situation.

Yes, that's probably what it is.  The policy engine ought to be able to
handle a bunch of incoming connections without any problems.  You can
adjust this setting by running these two commands as root, which will push
the maximum numer of vpm-pfpolicy processes up to the default, 100.

sed -i 's/\(^vpm-pfpolicy .*\)5/\1-/' /etc/postfix/master.cf
/usr/sbin/postfix reload

>I suppose I could look into nicing the clamscan process a bit, or
>increasing the timeout on the vpm-pfpolicy, but everything seems to be
>working fine so I'll probably just ignore it for now.

We haven't tried nicing clamscan, it would help other processes run, but
could slow down mail delivery a bit.  Adjusting the postfix anvil settings
might be a help too.

>It really is amazing how much spam greylisting stops, I wonder how long
>until the spammers figure that one out :-)

Yeah, we've been very happy with how effective it continues to be.

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