jenst@cernvax.UUCP (Jens Trier Rasmussen) (05/28/90)
Hej We are using the DECnet-Ultrix/Internet GW for e-mail quite heavily and have discovered a strange problem. We can have a lot of mail11 processes in the following states (where some of the processes are more than 12 hours old): Ty User Proc# Command co daemon 2175 mail11 | 2176 ** Exit ** co daemon 3063 mail11 | 3064 ** Exit ** co daemon 6274 mail11 | 6275 ** Exit ** co daemon 11560 mail11 | 11561 ** Exit ** co daemon 12138 mail11 | 12139 ** Exit ** co daemon 16612 mail11 | 16613 ** Exit ** co daemon 20072 mail11 | 20074 ** Exit ** co daemon 20562 mail11 | 20563 ** Exit ** co daemon 21881 mail11 | 21882 ** Exit ** 93 (16108k) processes, 2 (1276k) busy, 30 (3520k) loaded, 54 (3628k) swapped Such couple of processes have the following status: Ty User Status Fl Nice Virtual Resident %M Time Child %C Proc# Command co daemon kmem 104+ 96 0+ 0 0 0.4 0 21881 mail11 daemon EXIT 21882 ** Exit ** 94 (16388k) processes, 1 (376k) busy, 31 (3756k) loaded, 54 (3732k) swapped Both these displays were obtained with the sps program and we are running Ultrix/RISC version 3.1 with the virtual memory patches from DEC. And it is a DECsystem 3100 with 12 Mb of memory. Have you any ideas ? cheers Jens Trier Rasmussen CERN-CN/CS jenst@cernvax.cern.ch