From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 20:25:23 2004 Return-Path: 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 5820316A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:25:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mygirlfriday.info (user204.net795.mo.sprint-hsd.net [65.41.216.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B48C243D46 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:25:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gv-list-freebsdquestions@mygirlfriday.info) Received: (qmail 13639 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2004 04:25:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by major.mygirlfriday.info with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 12 Mar 2004 04:25:21 -0000 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:25:21 -0600 From: Gary To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1790000.1079065521@[192.168.0.5]> In-Reply-To: <40513836.9000603@discordians.net> References: <40512A99.3050508@discordians.net> <388938962.20040311215730@mygirlfriday.info> <40513836.9000603@discordians.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.2 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Pernicious problem with vfork / qmail / qmail-scanner X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 04:25:23 -0000 Hi KSC, --On Thursday, March 11, 2004 11:10:30 PM -0500 "Justin Baugh, KSC" wrote: > This machine has 2 gigabytes of RAM and 4 gigabytes of swap. I would have > to run several hundred simultaneous processes to even get close to that > limit. Even when the problem is occuring I have about 1400mb of inactive > RAM and I have had no swap usage. In the past I ran 10, 15, 20 deliveries > concurrently on smaller footprints with no problems, albeit under 4.x. yes, you could easily handle over 1 million emails a day with your nice setup. > Even assuming every mail delivery took up 50mb (we'll take some kind of > ridiculous worst case, it's more like 8-12mb), I would think I'd still be > able to have at least 20 concurrent deliveries since there are no > ulimits, right? Right, I agree 100%.. Combined this with the fact that you mentioned that you never had any problems with v4.x, I tend to think there is something with v5.x. I have several servers running v4.x and qmail-scanner, with f-prot, without problems.. I just wish I had something else to offer, but cannot think of anything else at the moment. -- Gary