RE: Loss of Swap space on Solaris 9

Thanks all for the responses.
We have not identified any large process's
However since the application of the patch cluster the number of
sendmail processes
root 5840 5822 0 17:56:03 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -bd
-q15m
Has grown to a very large number.

We have since restored the sendmail.cf file and restarted sendmail.

Does any one know of a sendmail issue with the Solaris 9 patch cluster
from Feb 20?



Scott Deiter
System Administrator
Hanover Direct, Inc.
Hanover, PA
Voice: 717-633-3298

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Deiter, Scott
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 9:40 AM
To: sunmanagers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Loss of Swap space on Solaris 9


An E450 running as our veritas master/media server and mail engine has
just had a 9_Recommended patch cluster applied. Since then the
allocated swap space has dropped.

The space did not fill up the allocation dropped.
This is determined by the logging of df -k.
Any clues as to the cause of this would be greatly appreciated.
At this point I have been directed to backout the cluster.

Below lists the swap space from the logs

Friday moring 5 min interval
==========================
22030528 :i swap 2036360 977848 1058512 49% /tmp
22031028 :i swap 1279920 992552 287368 78% /tmp
22031528 :i swap 1013272 998144 15128 99% /tmp
22032535 :i swap 1007200 998672 8528 100% /tmp
22033035 :i swap 1020832 999128 21704 98% /tmp
22033535 :i swap 999936 999936 0 100% /tmp
22034035 :i swap 999944 999944 0 100% /tmp
22034535 :i swap 1003968 999736 4232 100% /tmp
22035035 :i swap 1000096 999896 200 100% /tmp
22035535 :i swap 1000320 999680 640 100% /tmp
22040036 :i swap 1000352 999768 584 100% /tmp
22040536 :i swap 1005992 999632 6360 100% /tmp
22041036 :i swap 1016208 999384 16824 99% /tmp
22041536 :i swap 1020024 999256 20768 98% /tmp
===========================


Wednesday evening. 30 min interval
============================
02220230 :d swap 3131872 954128 2177744 31% /tmp
02220300 :d swap 2922664 959640 1963024 33% /tmp
02220330 :d swap 1015744 999160 16584 99% /tmp
02220401 :d swap 1000096 999768 328 100% /tmp
02220430 :d swap 1015616 999264 16352 99% /tmp
02220500 :d swap 1010104 999224 10880 99% /tmp
02220530 :d swap 1049768 998416 51352 96% /tmp
02220600 :d swap 1103120 997128 105992 91% /tmp
02220630 :d swap 1167400 995824 171576 86% /tmp


Scott Deiter
System Administrator
Hanover Direct, Inc.
Hanover, PA
Voice: 717-633-3298
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