Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 06:07:39 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: start multiple sendmail daemons from rc.conf? Message-ID: <20031126055846.X17841@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <67773D2B-1F75-11D8-B94F-003065ABFD92@mac.com> References: <3FC395B3.C59E4AC3@tcworks.net> <20031125175601.GA4988@wjv.com> <67773D2B-1F75-11D8-B94F-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
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Charles Swiger wrote:
> On the other hand, too many sendmail processes can thrash the system...
You mean "can TRASH the system..."!
I hate sendmail:
Nov 21 10:43:11 <mail.info> hewey sm-mta[71861]: hAL0h3UQ071861: delaying=EHLO, load average=5 >= 2
Nov 21 10:43:11 <mail.info> hewey sm-mta[71850]: hAL0gdUQ071850: from=<keebxfjp@hotmail.com>, size=1991,...
Nov 21 10:43:12 <mail.notice> hewey sm-mta[78325]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 5
Nov 21 10:43:12 <mail.notice> hewey sm-mta[78325]: rejecting connections on daemon MSA: load average: 5
Nov 21 10:43:14 <mail.info> hewey sm-mta[71848]: hAL0gcUQ071848: from=<owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>, size=3265,...
Nov 21 10:43:18 <mail.info> hewey sm-mta[71861]: hAL0h3UQ071861: from=<owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, size=5435,...
Nov 21 10:43:21 <kern.crit> hewey /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
Nov 21 10:43:21 <kern.crit> hewey /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
Nov 21 10:43:22 <kern.err> hewey /kernel: pid 215 (mysqld), uid 88, was killed: out of swap space
Nov 21 10:43:22 <kern.err> hewey last message repeated 5 times
So even though sendmail says it is rejecting connections (twice!), it then
goes and accepts two more! Grrr.
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:{ andyf@speednet.com.au
Andy Farkas
System Administrator
Speednet Communications
http://www.speednet.com.au/
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