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Date:      Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:34:46 -0600
From:      Gary <gv-list-freebsdquestions@mygirlfriday.info>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Pernicious problem with vfork / qmail / qmail-scanner
Message-ID:  <2190000.1079066086@[192.168.0.5]>
In-Reply-To: <40512A99.3050508@discordians.net>
References:  <40512A99.3050508@discordians.net>

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Hi KSC,

--On Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:12:25 PM -0500 "Justin Baugh, KSC" 
<baughj@discordians.net> wrote:

> Using truss, I see that the processes are just sitting there doing
> vfork/nanosleep over and over and over, in a "Resource temporarily
> unavailable" loop. Once the processes get into this state, they don't get
> out of it, and it seems to build up over time (??) - i.e. more and more
> forking errors until everything is hosed. The only way to fix it is to
> kill off all the qmail-scanner processes.

Something that just came to mind.. are you using one of the later
versions of qmail-scanner and perl? Also,perhaps try reconfiguring
qmail-scanner without adding in KAV for awhile, see if that narrows it
down as a cause to what you are seeing under truss.

-- 
Gary



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