From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 16 17: 5:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from the-rock.lausd.k12.ca.us (the-rock.lausd.k12.ca.us [209.232.1.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F9CE37B416 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:05:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (mallen@localhost) by the-rock.lausd.k12.ca.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1H156u00316; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:05:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mallen@erhs.la) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:05:06 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael D. Allen" X-X-Sender: To: Jonathan Chen Cc: Subject: Re: Very sluggish sendmail In-Reply-To: <20020217101514.A1169@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Message-ID: <20020216170323.U311-100000@the-rock.lausd.k12.ca.us> 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 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 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