roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (10/03/89)
Under SunOS-3.5.2 using IDA Sendmail 5.59++/IDA-1.2.5, we
occasionally get a bunch of sendmails hung, with consecutive (or nearly so)
pids. They never seem to use up any cpu time, but they do eat VM and space
in various system tables, so I'd like to figure out how to prevent them.
Anybody have any idea what might be happening? Here's a current example:
USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT TIME COMMAND
root 2224 0.0 0.0 280 0 ? IW 0:00 -running queue (sendmail)
root 2223 0.0 0.0 280 0 ? IW 0:00 -running queue (sendmail)
root 2222 0.0 0.0 280 0 ? IW 0:00 -running queue (sendmail)
root 2221 0.0 0.0 280 0 ? IW 0:00 -running queue (sendmail)
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Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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"The connector is the network"barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) (10/11/89)
In article <4026@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri (Roy Smith) writes: >USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT TIME COMMAND >root 2224 0.0 0.0 280 0 ? IW 0:00 -running queue (sendmail) >root 2223 0.0 0.0 280 0 ? IW 0:00 -running queue (sendmail) >root 2222 0.0 0.0 280 0 ? IW 0:00 -running queue (sendmail) >root 2221 0.0 0.0 280 0 ? IW 0:00 -running queue (sendmail) I can think of two possible causes for this, Roy. 1) the queue is too short (/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q15m) vs (/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q1h) 2) The mailer has a -I option in it. This was causing problems on machines on our internal; network when the ethernet mailer had the -I option. What happens is that the internal machine sends to the gateway, which then tries to make a connection to the remote machine. Until the mail is delivered, the internal machine's sendmail will not exit. I deleted the -I flag, and that seemed to fix the problem. -- Bruce G. Barnett <barnett@crd.ge.com> uunet!crdgw1!barnett