From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 11 05:33:44 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA06349 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 05:33:44 -0800 Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA06337 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 05:33:40 -0800 Received: from g386bsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08068; Sat, 11 Mar 95 14:32:41 +0100 Received: by g386bsd.first.gmd.de (OAA26804); Sat, 11 Mar 1995 14:34:39 +0100 From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199503111334.OAA26804@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: Swap errors and majordomo To: frank@jplpio.jpl.nasa.gov (Frank O'Donnell) Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 14:34:38 +0059 (MET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503110121.RAA07727@jplpio.jpl.nasa.gov> from "Frank O'Donnell" at Mar 10, 95 05:21:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1173 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > majordomo. Frequently these appear on the console as > I'd hoped that 25 MB would be ample for swap (being a good > bit more than 2 x amount of RAM). Do we need to set an Look how many sendmails are created from majordomo. I am sure you can control that in either some majordomo setup files or in the sendmail.cf file. I suspect that your mailing list gets exploded at once and it spawns twenty or thirty or even more sendmails to deliver the message and that kills the machine. How much swap do you need depends on the work you will put on the machine and not on the amount of ram you have :-). The 2x swap is only an idea if you don't know what will actually happens on the machine. I have now on some machines a 60Mb swap space because a certain compiler grows over 40Mb in his booting steps ( Sather ). But i have also lived for days with a 5Mb swap space on a 32Mb RAM machine, because i have forgotten to mount my second swap space and all was running well :-). ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe