From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 1 05:06:46 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id FAA21897 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 05:06:46 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA21891 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 05:06:43 -0700 Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA00268 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 07:59:03 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199508011159.HAA00268@hda.com> Subject: Hundreds of sendmails To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 07:59:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 637 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Can anyone suggest why on a 2.05R system I wind up with hundreds of sendmails running, eventually running out of swap and killing the system? It has a single slip line, uses the standard sendmail setup, and a similar setup has caused no problems on two other systems. It has 16MB memory and 32MB swap. All the system is doing is collecting mail and storing it to the local hard drive. -- *** Net and mailer reconfig is going on @hda.com. Problems to hdslip@iii.net Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267