start multiple sendmail daemons from rc.conf?

Andy Farkas andyf at speednet.com.au
Tue Nov 25 12:07:46 PST 2003


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 at 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 at freebsd.org>, size=3265,...
Nov 21 10:43:18 <mail.info> hewey sm-mta[71861]: hAL0h3UQ071861: from=<owner-freebsd-current at 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.

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        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
 http://www.speednet.com.au/




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