Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:05:06 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael D. Allen" <mallen@erhs.la> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Very sluggish sendmail Message-ID: <20020216170323.U311-100000@the-rock.lausd.k12.ca.us> In-Reply-To: <20020217101514.A1169@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 02:18:33AM -0800, Michael D. Allen wrote: > > Hi, I was wondering if someone had any ideas in helping to solve a > > sendmail problem I'm having. > > > > I'm running stock sendmail from FreeBSD 4.4, and sendmail is extremely > > sluggish. Running mailq takes a good 30 seconds on an idle Pentium III > > with an empty mail queue: > > [...] > > That's indicative of a timeout on a DNS lookup. Make sure all boxes > connecting to the mailserver have reverse-ptr entry in the DNS. > -- > Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Well, DNS is configured correctly. The resolver doesn't use kqueues, which is what was hanging. Removing IPv6 support from the kernel has fixed things. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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