From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 27 16:20:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA22885 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:20:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22878 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:20:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue2@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue2@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA04220; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 11:20:10 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19980328112007.32037@welearn.com.au> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 11:20:07 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail death note Reply-To: Sue Blake References: <19980328005749.40823@zip.com.au> <19980328080111.52681@freebie.lemis.com> <19980328094534.24608@welearn.com.au> <19980328101345.06263@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <19980328101345.06263@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 10:13:45AM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 10:13:45AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sat, 28 March 1998 at 9:45:34 +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 08:01:11AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Sat, 28 March 1998 at 0:57:49 +1000, Sue Blake wrote: > >>> > >>> Can anyone translate this for me? > >>> > >>> sendmail: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): SMTP-MAIL: died on signal 11 > >>> /kernel: pid 18983 (sendmail), uid 0 exited on signal 11 > >>> > >>> These two errror messges have been alternating for two hours. > >>> All I've figured out is "signal 11" means something awful is happening :-( > >>> There's a vaguely similar question in the archives but no answer. > >> > >> Signal 11 is SIGSEGV. In programming terms, it means that the program > >> has attempted to access memory which doesn't belong to it. > >> > >> In the case of sendmail, I'd guess that there's something wrong with > >> the sendmail configuration. Have you changed anything recently? > > > > Nope. Later it started acting up again and then complained something about > > running out of swap. > > That'll do it. If you can't allocate swap, you can't allocate memory. > sendmail, innocent, tries to access it anyway and runs into a brick > wall. > > I see you have 24 MB of swap. Especially considering you only have 8 > MB of main memory, that's far too little. I know the disk's small, > but all the more reason for fewer partitions: > > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > a: 65536 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 31) > b: 53248 65536 swap # (Cyl. 32 - 57) > c: 595968 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 290) > e: 61440 118784 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 58 - 87) > f: 415744 180224 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 88 - 290) > > I'd recommend at *least* 32 MB, maybe 48 MB of swap (though the fact > that you've got away so far suggests that 32 would probably do for > this machine). While you're at it, I'd also recommend merging > partitions e and f. Aaaaahhaaa... thanks for all that. Until I can organise a full backup and restore I guess thrashing ten logins at once will have to stop :-( > > I logged out to give it a chance to catch up with > > itself and that didn't help. Eventually the poor thing became incoherent. > > Then I cleared the swap the only way I knew how: by rebooting. > > Stopping processes helps too. Hehe, some bailed out voluntarily. I tried in vain to stop at least sendmail between the pesky screen scribble, but now that I know it's worth doing I'll try harder if this happens again. Thanks for informing as well as helping :-) -- Regards, -*Sue*- find / -name "*.conf" |more To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message