From: "William F. Maton" <wmaton@ryouko.dgim.crc.ca>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:09:11 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96LJ1.1b7.1001110160719.514B-100000@ryouko.dgim.crc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A0C5A41.16EEAE78@timpanogas.org>
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
> I think it is. So it looks like sendmail is bombing when it attempts to
> send large files.
Not to use the 'S-word', but we're receiving/sending biggish attachments
(7MB-9MB) under Solaris 2.6. Could sendmail be triggering a linux bug, or
could something specific to linux be triggering a sendmail bug?
> Jeff
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Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-10 18:45 [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue] Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 18:52 ` William F. Maton
2000-11-10 18:52 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 19:05 ` Horst von Brand
2000-11-10 19:04 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 19:30 ` Horst von Brand
2000-11-10 19:46 ` Tim Walberg
2000-11-11 11:33 ` Dominik Kubla
2000-11-11 13:35 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2000-11-10 23:41 ` Igmar Palsenberg
2000-11-10 22:34 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11 0:45 ` Igmar Palsenberg
2000-11-10 23:40 ` Igmar Palsenberg
2000-11-10 19:08 ` Richard A Nelson
2000-11-10 19:10 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 19:15 ` William F. Maton
2000-11-10 23:37 ` Igmar Palsenberg
2000-11-10 19:34 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-10 19:33 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11 13:24 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2000-11-11 18:05 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 19:02 ` Richard A Nelson
2000-11-10 19:00 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 19:11 ` Richard A Nelson
2000-11-10 19:13 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 19:25 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 19:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-10 19:34 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 19:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-10 20:07 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-10 20:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-10 20:27 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 20:36 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-10 21:09 ` William F. Maton [this message]
2000-11-10 21:10 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 20:42 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-10 20:47 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 20:59 ` Claus Assmann
2000-11-10 22:28 ` Davide Libenzi
2000-11-10 21:16 ` Claus Assmann
2000-11-10 22:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-11 0:14 ` Igmar Palsenberg
2000-11-10 23:12 ` Claus Assmann
2000-11-10 23:13 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11 1:15 ` Steve VanDevender
2000-11-11 2:02 ` David Ford
2000-11-11 3:20 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11 3:14 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11 13:29 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2000-11-10 20:31 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-12 1:39 ` Horst von Brand
2000-11-13 2:58 ` David Ford
2000-11-11 13:20 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2000-11-10 20:22 willy tarreau
2000-11-10 23:55 ` Igmar Palsenberg
[not found] <3A0C427A.E015E58A@timpanogas.org>
[not found] ` <20001110095227.A15010@sendmail.com>
[not found] ` <3A0C37FF.23D7B69@timpanogas.org>
[not found] ` <20001110101138.A15087@sendmail.com>
[not found] ` <3A0C3F30.F5EB076E@timpanogas.org>
[not found] ` <20001110133431.A16169@sendmail.com>
[not found] ` <3A0C6B7C.110902B4@timpanogas.org>
2000-11-10 21:52 ` sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 22:03 ` Neil W Rickert
2000-11-10 22:05 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 22:18 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-10 22:22 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 22:32 ` Claus Assmann
2000-11-10 22:31 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 22:23 ` Richard A Nelson
2000-11-11 13:45 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2000-11-10 22:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-10 22:29 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11 1:44 ` Ralf Baechle
2000-11-11 1:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-11 3:16 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11 11:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-11 18:03 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11 1:35 ` Ralf Baechle
2000-11-11 1:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-11 1:47 ` Mohammad A. Haque
2000-11-10 23:25 ` Davide Libenzi
2000-11-11 12:23 ` (non)importance of loadaverages bert hubert
2000-11-10 22:52 ` sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue David Lang
2000-11-10 22:07 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 22:25 ` Claus Assmann
2000-11-10 23:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-11 7:57 ` Rogier Wolff
2000-11-11 8:23 ` [OFF] Load avarage (Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue) Kari E. Hurtta
2000-11-11 0:28 ` Wild thangs, was: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue David Ford
2000-11-11 0:27 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11 0:46 ` David Ford
2000-11-11 3:25 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11 2:41 ` David Ford
2000-11-11 2:45 ` Andrew Morton
2000-11-11 3:09 ` Andrew Morton
2000-11-11 1:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-13 16:34 ` [OT] " Bruce Guenter
2000-11-11 13:40 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2000-11-11 18:11 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11 19:12 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2000-11-11 19:38 ` J Sloan
2000-11-13 6:22 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-12 4:44 ` Jesse Pollard
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