Greetings,
I've recently encountered a problem with qmail handling large
messages (~10 MB) being sent to many users (~15). The problem doesn't
seem to be related to bandwidth, but rather how the processes are
handled on the machine.
Some stats:
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.
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 to
recover.
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.
Any opinions?
Matt Callaway
