fchan ybmjpmolsciorg hello thought set etcrcdinitdspamd redhat linux maybe im wrong see maxchildren spamd number maxchildrennumber option specifies maximum number children spawn spamd spawn number children sleep background child dies wherein go spawn new child incoming connections still occur children busy however connections queued waiting free child minimum value 1 default value 5 please note os specific maximum connections queued try perl msocket eprint somaxconn find maximum note run many servers amount free ram available run danger hurting performance causing high swap load server processes swapped continually perl msocket eprint somaxconn system get 128 option section spamd set default spamd configuration spamdoptionsd 20 h spamd_pidvarrunspamdpid im still getting error messages log server reached maxchildren setting consider raising supposed set place see spamdconf supposed etc dont spamdconf make one thank frank thu 07 aug 2008 123316 0800 maxchildren setting consider raising