Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:20:16 -0600 (CST) From: bugs@freebsd.netcom.com (Mark Hittinger) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: re: Freebsd and Majordomo out of memory Message-ID: <199603181520.JAA12308@freebsd.netcom.com>
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> From: Rob Cima <rcima@global-image.com> > I'm running FreeBSD 2.0.5, majordomo 1.93 and perl 5.001m. I get out of > memory errors whenever a message gets sent to majordomo, and the majordomo > process just sits until it is killed. It might be because majordomo creates a bunch of sendmail processes to deliver the message. If you had a large mailing list you might see this behavior. I modified the sendmail switches used in the /etc/aliases entry for each of the mailing lists that I ran. I included the '-odq' switch for sendmail. This switch is your friend. Each sendmail process will queue its mail to be sent later and exit. You can then have your tradition -q1h process come along and send mail in a serial fashion rather than a parallel fashion. (I used -q30m to speed things up a little). Sendmail consumes a lot of resources, and if you have too many simultaneous sendmails bad things will happen. Later! Mark Hittinger Netcom/Dallas bugs@freebsd.netcom.com
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