> If you've done an "hg push" to a clearview repository in the past few > hours and you're worried that you haven't seen the notification, I can > tell you why. The notifications are working, but zhadum's system load > is preventing sendmail from processing its local mail queue (the > notifications and other email messages are all backed up > in /var/spool/clientqueue). They'll hopefully make their way out when > zhadum's load goes down. > > I've already spoken with Bill Sommerfeld to see if we can change > sendmail's configuration so that typical system load due to nightly > builds doesn't affect sendmail queue processing. This will hopefully be > resolved soon.
It's actually due to a bug in sendmail, not due to system load (I've spoken with jbeck about this bug before; as I recall, by the time it happens there's not enough evidence left to diagnose it). Anyway, I've just done a "svcadm restart sendmail" and everything is fine again. -- meem
