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тАО12-20-2001 12:55 PM
тАО12-20-2001 12:55 PM
I have a 9000/712 workstation receiving e-mails from several systems. The 712 box is completely bogged down. When I do:
ps -ef |grep sendmail
I get 140 odd processes that look like:
root 589 1 0 14:00:41 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -q30m -- only one of this kind actually
root 23041 543 0 10:12:01 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bs -oL10
root 22899 543 0 10:04:09 ? 0:00 sendmail: server root@b888 [ppp.
qqq.rrr.sss] child wait
root 22805 22797 0 09:58:52 ? 0:00 sendmail: JAA22805 root@[rrr.ppp
.qqq.ttt]: DATA
I have no idea why so many process of the type above are being spawned. I rebooted the server but the processes built up again and bogged the system down at an average load of over 80,
which is terrible because the 712 box is only used as a mail repository.
I can provide more info as necessary. Please help.
Nives
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тАО12-20-2001 01:04 PM
тАО12-20-2001 01:04 PM
Re: too many sendmail processes
In order to limit load on a very busy system, the sendmail daemon #
# can be configured not to accept SMTP connections if the five- #
# minute load average is greater than some integer value, by #
# default 12. This value is defined on the line beginning #
# O RefuseLA=.
GL,
C
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тАО12-20-2001 01:05 PM
тАО12-20-2001 01:05 PM
Re: too many sendmail processes
# maximum number of new connections per second
#O ConnectionRateThrottle=3
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тАО12-20-2001 01:06 PM
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Re: too many sendmail processes
HTH
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тАО12-20-2001 01:10 PM
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Re: too many sendmail processes
MC,
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тАО12-20-2001 02:10 PM
тАО12-20-2001 02:10 PM
Re: too many sendmail processes
Give this sample a try,
http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=8efa4c21160ec530fc/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000024603555
Hope this helps.
Regds
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тАО12-20-2001 02:23 PM
тАО12-20-2001 02:23 PM
Re: too many sendmail processes
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тАО12-21-2001 07:07 AM
тАО12-21-2001 07:07 AM
Re: too many sendmail processes
Now the number of sendmail processes is 157.
I didn't find ConnectionRateThrottle in sendmail.cf.
What could be causing it?
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тАО12-21-2001 07:16 AM
тАО12-21-2001 07:16 AM
Re: too many sendmail processes
smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/sendmail -bs -oL10
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тАО12-21-2001 07:19 AM
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Re: too many sendmail processes
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