On Mon, 27 Dec 1999 18:32:32 -0500 , Delanet Administration writes:
> I have a FreeBSD 3.1r server running qmail 1.03 with ezmlm and vchkpw
> 3.12. It's been running fine for 9 months or so now until last week. The
> server crashed (hardware related and fixed) and there was rather
> extensive FS corruption..after cleaning it and re-starting qmail, the
> mbufs which normally never spike over 300 or so topped 7k, crashed the
> server simply trying to start qmail. I raised max-users and thats fixed
> it, however for a server to suddently need over twice the mbufs with no
> real changes aside from addition of users (not enough to account for
> that much change) bothers me. I can find nothing wrong with it..I did
> have some 330+ messages in the queue, however I've restarted it with
> more before..even a kill -ALRM would cause a crash before I increased
> the limit, which never was a problem in the past. Has anyone else
> experienced this or have any ideas on where I can look to track it down?
What was probably happening was some sizeable messages
built up in the queue, and when running the queue
(on startup or kill -ALRM), qmail was attempting to
deliver them all simultaneously.
I was seeing mbuf usage exceed 15000 from large
hotmail messages the other week :-/
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