On Wed, 31 May 2006, David Lord wrote: > I'm not sure of exact cause but I'm getting fairly regular coredumps > from XMail on NetBSD-3.0. Whist the fd-open files issue on my FreeBSD > setup isn't apparent it is still an annoyance and if anything was a > little more frequent, 2 - 3 days vs 2 - 3 weeks. > > I've been able to produce a coredump by a kernel compile and have > noticed that attempting to send to multiple domains or make multiple > pop3 connections. This was apparent to a much lesser extent on > FreeBSD. NetBSD server has 64 MB ram and vmstat has avm = 35332 fre = > 7976 whilst FreeBSD one has 128 MB with avm = 47528 and fre = 25464. > > So my best guess was a problem memory and reducing the values of > SmtpMinVirtMemSpace and Pop3MinVirtMemSpace from 10000 to 5000 in > steps of 1000 seems to confirm this. At around 8000 an improvement in > that starting a kernel compile didn't produce an immediate coredump > and at 7000 some compiles completed and so far at 5000 I've not had a > coredump. > > So are SmtpMinVirtMemSpace and Pop3MinVirtMemSpace where the problem > lies and if so what values should I be using or could eliminating the > problem require adjusting one of the NetBSD memory sysctls?
Hmmm, does NetBSD have an OOM killer in the kernel? Can you build XMail in debug mode and send a gdb `bt full`? - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
