Re: start multiple sendmail daemons from rc.conf?

From: Andy Farkas (andyf_at_speednet.com.au)
Date: 11/25/03

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    Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 06:07:39 +1000 (EST)
To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>

    Charles Swiger wrote:

    > On the other hand, too many sendmail processes can thrash the system...

    You mean "can TRASH the system..."!

    I hate sendmail:

    Nov 21 10:43:11 <mail.info> hewey sm-mta[71861]: hAL0h3UQ071861: delaying=EHLO, load average=5 >= 2
    Nov 21 10:43:11 <mail.info> hewey sm-mta[71850]: hAL0gdUQ071850: from=<keebxfjp@hotmail.com>, size=1991,...
    Nov 21 10:43:12 <mail.notice> hewey sm-mta[78325]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 5
    Nov 21 10:43:12 <mail.notice> hewey sm-mta[78325]: rejecting connections on daemon MSA: load average: 5
    Nov 21 10:43:14 <mail.info> hewey sm-mta[71848]: hAL0gcUQ071848: from=<owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>, size=3265,...
    Nov 21 10:43:18 <mail.info> hewey sm-mta[71861]: hAL0h3UQ071861: from=<owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, size=5435,...
    Nov 21 10:43:21 <kern.crit> hewey /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
    Nov 21 10:43:21 <kern.crit> hewey /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
    Nov 21 10:43:22 <kern.err> hewey /kernel: pid 215 (mysqld), uid 88, was killed: out of swap space
    Nov 21 10:43:22 <kern.err> hewey last message repeated 5 times

    So even though sendmail says it is rejecting connections (twice!), it then
    goes and accepts two more! Grrr. 

    --
 :{ andyf@speednet.com.au
        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
 http://www.speednet.com.au/
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