Jon Rust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 08:36:26AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
>
> > Is this happening whenever any process injects mail? Or only when qmail-smtpd
> > (and possibly qmail-qmtpd and qmail-qmqpd) inject mail? If the latter, are
> > you running with memory limits on qmail-smtpd?
>
> I don't know. It doesn't happen all the time, and there is no logging
> available from within qmail-qfilter. :-/ I'm working on setting up a
> test environment to try to isolate the problem. I've got softlimit
> capping me usage for smtpd at 2000000 (2 MB).
Chances are that the Perl interpreter can't run in 2MB on your system; try
upping that to 6MB or 8MB and try again. I bet a pint that fixes your
problem.
> > Another possibility (given that you're running on PC hardware) is hardware
> > problems; "it's worked fine for years" does not mean there wasn't a latent
> > problem all along.
>
> Okay, how about it works fine without qmail-qfilter? :-)
You might not like this answer, but that's no guarantee. Hardware issues in
computing can cause all sorts of seemingly unrelated problems; it's one of the
reasons I wrote memtester. "It worked fine before, I added foo, it doesn't
work now, therefore foo is broken" is an argument known as post hoc, ergo
prompter hoc -- and it's a fallacy.
> > No, Bruce is just a busy guy (hence the adjective "prolific" at
> > qmail.org). He's still working on qmail-related stuff; vmailmgr is
> > undergoing active development. If you would like Bruce to change his
> > priorities, I'm sure that he would be happy to move your pet projects to
> > the top of his to-do list, given the appropriate incentive. That's how
> > free software consulting works.
>
> Ah, bad assumption on my part. He has never responded to any mail I've sent
> him concerning any of the qmail how-to's or projects he has donated to our
> community. I just ASSuMEd he had moved on. My bad, and apologies to BG.
> Offering up incentive isn't an issue. I'd be more than happy to.
Bruce rarely responds personally to questions which fall under any of the
following categories:
-can be answered by the documentation
-can be answered by the FAQ
-can be answered by looking in mailing list archives
-are only peripherally related to his software (i.e. core qmail questions)
-questions sent to him personally instead of one of his mailing lists
In those respects, he's a lot like djb. Unlike djb (I suspect), however, it
would probably be relatively easy to get him to put your request at the top of
his todo list by offering him a decent hourly rate for the work.
Charles
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