Errors from postfix with mpsafenet=1 (Re: SMP kernel)

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Feb 15 21:32:19 GMT 2005


On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:39:20AM -1000, Kara Chapman wrote:
> Hi Kris,
> 
> Thanks for your help -- that seems to have fixed the problem. You
> mentioned that it was only a temporary fix, so what do you suggest doing
> now? Is this a bug that I should report?

Yes, Robert Watson might be interested in this (CC'ed).  It's possible
that there's already a fix for this in 5.3-STABLE, but he'd have a
better idea of that.

Kris

> 
> Kara
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:kris at obsecurity.org] 
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 3:10 PM
> To: Kara Chapman
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: SMP kernel
> 
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 02:08:25PM -1000, Kara Chapman wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I am running FreeBSD 5.3 and have recently rebuilt the kernel to use
> > SMP.  Ever since, I get these error messages from postfix on a regular
> > basis:
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > postfix/smtpd[49491]: fatal: accept connection: Invalid argument
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Does anyone know what this means and if it's at all related to the new
> > kernel?  Other than adding SMP, the kernel is using all the defaults.
> 
> Do the messages persist if you set debug.mpsafenet=0 in your
> /boot/loader.conf and reboot (this is only a workaround since it
> causes relative performance degradation, but it will help to identify
> where the problem might be)?
> 
> Kris
> 
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