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Date:      Wed, 29 Oct 2003 18:40:12 +0100
From:      Andy Hilker <ah@cryptobank.de>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Postfix locks 5.1-servers?
Message-ID:  <20031029174012.GA92073@goodhope.crypta.net>
In-Reply-To: <20031029092824.E1970@light.sdf.com>
References:  <20031029095404.E28526@doriath.saers.com> <20031029092824.E1970@light.sdf.com>

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Hi,

i am using current. Similar problems *without* postfix. Login via ssh
results in print motd, but nothing more.
Login on local console results in nothing after pressing enter on
username.

Andy

You (Tom) wrote:
> 
>   Usually if networking locks up like this, you should check the mbuf
> usage.  It is possible for resource starvation to cause a situation where
> TCP connections are accepted, but can't be sent data.  "netstat -m"
> 
>   If that doesn't work, I would recommend cvsup'ping one of the machines
> to -current.  5.1-p10 just has security fixes, not bug fixes.
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Niklas Saers Mailinglistaccount wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > are anyone familiar with conditions where postfix may bring a 5.1-p10
> > server to a halt, making the server accept incoming ports (such as 22) but
> > serve nothing, making getty(8) become non-respondent (pressing enter
> > doesn't give any feedback) and making the server ignore ctrl-alt-del etc?
> >
> > I've got two boxes running FreeBSD 5.1-p10 and Postfix 2.0.10,1 and
> > 2.0.13,1. They also have a java process (v1.3.1 and v1.4.1) running, but
> > that one is an extremely tiny process that can only be accessed from one
> > specific IP and when executing lives for a couple of milliseconds.
> >
> > Does this ring any bells with anyone? We've been at it for a while and not
> > being able to figure it out. The boxes are quite different hardwareish, so
> > I don't suspect that being the problem.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >   Niklas Saers
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