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Re: [cobalt-users] Sendmail Zombie - SMTP shutting down
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Sendmail Zombie - SMTP shutting down
- From: "Robert G. Fisher" <rfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Jun 8 05:04:38 2000
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 06:30:00PM -0300, Gustavo Diógenes wrote:
> I have a RaQ2 - 128RAM - 13Gb and about 180 sites on it.
>
> Since last week the sendmail has been shutting down the SMTP service
> every 5 minutes. Sometimes it stays on for a little longer and then
> starts to shut down again every 5 minutes.
> Almost every time the SMTP goes out it leaves a sendmail(zombie)
> in process list.
Odd, the primary reason I see sendmail zombie out would be resource
starvation. Have you tried leaving vmstat running to see how much
RAM is available when the processes zombie out?
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Robert G. Fisher NEOCOM Microspecialists Inc.
System Administrator/Programmer (540) 666-9533 x 116