Paulo Jan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 3) Some minutes later I decide to restart qmail again. qmail-qstat says
> that there are around 250 messages in the queue, of which 140 (more or
> less) are unprocessed. I restart qmail and everything goes fine... for a
> few seconds, after which the box becomes unresponsive.
> 4) I go to the console, and see it filling up with the following
> message: "VM: do_try_to_free_pages_failed_for qmail-remote" (the wording
> may not be exact, though). I try to log in, but the machine isn't
> responding at all (just printing this message as fast as it can), and am
> finally forced to push the button and reboot (ouch).
The machine may have come back had you given it time to recover. It might
probably sitting at a system load of 30-150, and interactive performance
is virtually nil at those times.
> Now, what I'd like to know is: what happened? I certainly didn't expect
> to see this in two pieces of software as robust as qmail and Linux, and
> I usually perform the above operation (stop outgoing mail, do whatever,
> start qmail-send again) without any problems. I don't think that a queue
> of just 250 messages is enough to make either qmail or Linux barf. So...
> what happened?
You may have your concurrency limits set too high for the resources of the
box. But you've posted no useful information with your report, so we can
only guess.
Charles
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