Hello Len,
>dmesg | less
This was taken while the problem was happening, nothing strange there:
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FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct 9 15:08:34 GMT 2002
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (698.40-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x683 Stepping = 3
Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,C
MOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
real memory = 805294080 (786420K bytes)
avail memory = 777846784 (759616K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc050f000.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
md0: Malloc disk
Using $PIR table, 9 entries at 0xc00fdf30
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib1: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on
pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pci1: <ATI Mach64-GB graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 11
isab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0x10a0-0x10af at device 7.1
on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port 0x1080-0x109f irq
9 at device 7.2 on pci0
usb0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
chip1: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> port 0x7000-0x700f at
device 7.3 on pci0
xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x1000-0x107f mem
0xf4000000-0xf400007f irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:10:4b:97:92:34
miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
xlphy0: <3Com internal media interface> on miibus0
xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem
0xc0000-0xcbfff,0xe0000-0xe3fff,0xe4000-0xeffff on isa0
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on
isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on
isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
ad0: 19092MB <ST320414A> [38792/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
acd0: CDROM <GCR-8523B> at ata1-master PIO4
>check /var/log/messages
Nothing there.
>check for I/O colliisions and errors:
>netstat -bi
I'll try that next time.
>postfix stop
>see if the network calms down
>postfix start
I'll try this too.
>you may under SMTP attack
That's what I suspect.
>ps aux | egrep -ic "smtpd"
57
>and compare that number with what is in master.cf
Which number in master.cf?
Thank you for your help,
Adolfo Justiniano
Santa Cruz BBS
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.scbbs.net
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