Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:12:32 -0400 From: Robert Withrow <bwithrow@BayNetworks.COM> To: Tom <tom@sdf.com> Cc: Robert Withrow <bwithrow@BayNetworks.COM>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail error messages...caused by limits? Message-ID: <199804221312.JAA03320@tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Tom <tom@sdf.com> of "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:36:08 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980420103401.23554D-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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tom@sdf.com said: :- Do a "pstat -T" to find out. I find this doubtful, unless you have :- a really low MAXUSERS setting. A default GENERIC has thousands of :- descriptors. >From my config file: maxusers 40 I had a tcl script do periodic pstat -T's while building the software. Sendmail said: Apr 22 09:01:51 tuva sendmail[3267]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: putoutmsg (NO-HOST): error on output channel sending "451 fill_fd: before readcf: fd 1 not open: Bad file descriptor": Input/output error Apr 22 09:01:51 tuva sendmail[3267]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(bwithrow): fill_fd: before readcf: fd 1 not open: Bad file descriptor Apr 22 09:01:59 tuva sendmail[3267]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(bwithrow): fill_fd: before readcf: fd 2 not open: Bad file descriptor pstat said: Wed Apr 22 09:01:32 EDT 1998 -- 186/1320 files 57M/137M swap space Wed Apr 22 09:01:39 EDT 1998 -- 183/1320 files 46M/137M swap space Wed Apr 22 09:01:45 EDT 1998 -- 183/1320 files 46M/137M swap space Wed Apr 22 09:01:50 EDT 1998 -- 182/1320 files 46M/137M swap space Wed Apr 22 09:01:55 EDT 1998 -- 182/1320 files 45M/137M swap space Wed Apr 22 09:02:01 EDT 1998 -- 184/1320 files 45M/137M swap space The 9:01 time corresponds to when this executable was being linked: -rwxrwxr-x 1 <user> <group> 23904904 Apr 22 09:01 <program> >From observation, the sendmail error messages *always* correspond to the time when this executable is being linked. This seems to indicate that *some* resource is being exhausted, but apparently not swap or descriptors. Can anyone suggest something else to try? P.S.: bash-2.01$ uname -r 2.2.6-RELEASE -- Robert Withrow -- (+1 508 916 8256) BWithrow@BayNetworks.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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