Paulo Jan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Well, I asked mostly because I didn't know what the "VM:
> do_try_to_free_pages_failed_for qmail-remote" message meant, but since
> then I've been informed that it more or less stand for "out of memory".
> As for my server, it's a Pentium III with 128 Mb. of memory and 48Mb. of
> swap; concurrencylocal is 50 and concurrencyremote is only 16 (and I
> have databytes set to around 9Mb.). I find it a bit strange that a queue
> of just 250 messages could be enough to crash the box with those
> settings...
Perhaps it's too many copies of qmail-smtpd being spawned -- what are you
setting tcpserver's limits to? Are you specifying softlimits for qmail-smtpd?
If not, someone can connect and send an arbitrarily long SMTP command and
cause qmail-smtpd to consume arbitrary amounts of memory.
Charles
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