From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 22 11:27:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 320DB37B401 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:27:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx-a.qnet.com (mx-a.qnet.com [209.221.198.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5BBC43E42 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:27:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjl@QNET.COM) Received: from cello.qnet.com (root@cello.qnet.com [209.221.198.10]) by mx-a.qnet.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7MIR3A1015761; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:27:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjl@QNET.COM) Received: from cello.qnet.com (cello.qnet.com [209.221.198.10]) by cello.qnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA17315; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:26:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:26:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Linstruth To: "C. A. Daelhousen" Cc: Subject: Re: Open files and Swap Space Errors (fwd) In-Reply-To: <20020822033623.A47209@selvirjin.alltel.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sendmail doesn't crash, if that's what "getting shot" means. See my other message. -- Chris Linstruth QNET 1529 East Palmdale Blvd Suite 200 Palmdale, CA 93550 (661) 538-2028 On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, C. A. Daelhousen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 12:01:13AM -0700, Chris Linstruth wrote: > > Actually, I readily get the errors from systat -a. The system > > isn't grinding to a halt, it's just reporting swap errors and file > > table full when pstat -s and sysctl show, plainly, that they're > > not even close to their maximums. > > > > If the sequence of events goes: > > 1. Normal > 2. Problem occurs > 3. Sendmail gets shot > 4. Normal, but without sendmail > 5. You check current system status > > Then you'll never see the problem, because it's already vanished when > sendmail got shot. Timing is critical. You have to set up SOME sort of > automated thing to try to show the problem immediately before sendmail > is shot. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message