On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 11:35:06AM +1300, Jason Haar wrote:
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 08:35:18PM +, Florian G. Pflug wrote:
Well, 10MB Message for 15 Users makes 150MB vs. 16MB Ram + 50 MB Swap makes
64MB. So if qmail tried to deliver all the messages simultaniously, it will
run into
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 07:21:58AM -0600, Matthew Callaway wrote:
Dave Sill wrote:
It's obvious that 150 MB of mail is a lot to process on such a pokey
little machine, but it seems a bit odd for the machine to completely
choke and die.
If you push an underpowered system running
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 08:35:18PM +, Florian G. Pflug wrote:
Under any good OS (not Win95, Winnt?), software running in userspace (that
is, all programms, including init) should _never_ be able to crash the
machine. If the machine crashed under heavy load and/or heavy IO, it seems
that
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 08:35:18PM +, Florian G. Pflug wrote:
Well, 10MB Message for 15 Users makes 150MB vs. 16MB Ram + 50 MB Swap makes
64MB. So if qmail tried to deliver all the messages simultaniously, it will
run into trouble, and could make the machine *seem* to be crashed, while it
Dave Sill wrote:
It's obvious that 150 MB of mail is a lot to process on such a pokey
little machine, but it seems a bit odd for the machine to completely
choke and die.
If you push an underpowered system running antiquated software to the
breaking point, don't be surprised if it breaks.
Matthew Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I realize that the machine is old, and is running software that has
updates, but the point is that a heavily loaded mail program shouldn't
*kill* a machine.
When you say "kill", do you mean the system actually crashes, or just
slows to a crawl? If it
Earlier I wrote:
Mail seems to be successfully delivered, but then processes grind to a
halt, and the machine actually crashes. Upon rebooting, the machine
dies again during the boot process, and rebooting a third time it died
at the login prompt. Only after the fourth reboot does it seem
Matthew Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
qmail-1.01 (yes we know it's not the newest, but that shouldn't relate
to the problem at hand)
Red Hat Linux 4.2 (kernel 2.0.35)
running on a pentium 133
with 16 MB of RAM
Diskspace is plentiful.
It's obvious that 150 MB of mail is a lot to process on
