From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 15 19:24:47 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1190B16A401 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:24:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roldan@transnet.cu) Received: from ns1.transnet.cu (ns1.transnet.cu [200.55.129.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B273513C474 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:24:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roldan@transnet.cu) Received: from ns1.transnet.cu (root@localhost) by ns1.transnet.cu (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id l1FE8CIv004740 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:08:13 GMT Received: from mail.transnet.cu ([200.55.137.3]) by ns1.transnet.cu (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id l1FE3ZH7003743 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:07:58 GMT Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.transnet.cu (8.11.3/8.11.3) id l1FIv9m67317 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:57:09 -0500 (CST) Received: from UNKNOWN(200.55.137.12), claiming to be "prueba" via SMTP by mail.transnet.cu, id smtpdm67286; Thu Feb 15 13:57:00 2007 Message-ID: <001701c75133$e1cb0870$dd64000a@transnet.cu> From: "Roldan Vallejo Olivera" To: Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:02:47 -0500 Organization: Sitrans MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 Subject: problems with KAV for FreeBSD 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:24:47 -0000 hello list: I have a FreeBSD 6.0 running in an HP Proliant GL 370, Dual Xeon 3.2 GHz, 1GB RAM, and RAID-5 75 GB, in this system we have a BIND DNS service and a Sendmail as a mail relay-only server, processing an average of 3GB messages daily, we have purchased a KAV license for 4 GB traffic daily, but we are having problems: sometimes our server runs out of resources and issues the following message error: "maxproc limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning(7) and login.conf(5) ns1 sendmail[545] syserr (root): openmailer (smtpscanner): cannot fork: resource temporarily unavailable no queue: syserr(root): daemon: cannot fork" at this moment when I try to login at the server i receive this error: "login: login: fork: resource temporarily unavailable" the server replies at ping command, but doesn't allow telnet neither ssh, and stops processing messages. we have noticed this scenario runs out of free memory as we read the output of top command: "last pid: 26888; load averages: 1.02, 0.91, 0.54 up 3+19:06:18 03:10:00 615 processes: 4 starting, 2 running, 608 sleeping, 1 lock Mem: 698M Active, 58M Inact, 188M Wired, 48M Cache, 111M Buf, 3532K Free Swap: 4096M Total, 24M Used, 4071M Free" As soon as I reboot the system everything works fine for the next 3 or 4 days... I don't know what's exactly the problem and of course, I have no idea of the solution, can anybody help me, please? thanks in advance roldan