From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 22 06:13:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA07062 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 06:13:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp-gw.BayNetworks.COM (ns2.BayNetworks.COM [134.177.3.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07057 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:13:26 GMT (envelope-from bwithrow@BayNetworks.COM) Received: from mailhost.BayNetworks.COM (screen2r.BayNetworks.COM [134.177.3.1]) by smtp-gw.BayNetworks.COM (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA28296; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 06:11:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM (pobox.engeast.baynetworks.com [192.32.61.6]) by mailhost.BayNetworks.COM (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA27780; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 06:10:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com (tuva [192.32.68.38]) by pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM (SMI-8.6/BNET-97/04/24-S) with ESMTP id JAA21644; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:12:49 -0400 for Received: from tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03320; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:12:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bwithrow@tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com) Message-Id: <199804221312.JAA03320@tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Tom cc: Robert Withrow , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail error messages...caused by limits? In-Reply-To: Message from Tom of "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:36:08 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:12:32 -0400 From: Robert Withrow Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 23904904 Apr 22 09:01 >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