From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:22:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:22:21 -0500 Received: from Cantor.suse.de ([194.112.123.193]:8979 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:22:02 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 21:21:56 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: "Richard B. Johnson" Cc: "Jeff V. Merkey" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue] Message-ID: <20001110212156.A4568@inspiron.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20001110205129.A4344@inspiron.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from root@chaos.analogic.com on Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:07:46PM -0500 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:07:46PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > It isn't a TCP/IP stack problem. It may be a memory problem. Every time > sendmail spawns a child to send the file data, it crashes. That's > why the file never gets sent! Sure that could be the case. You should be able to verify the kernel kills the task with `dmesg`. However Jeff said the problem happens over 400K and a 500K attachment shouldn't really run any machine out of memory, so maybe this wasn't his same problem? Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/