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- From: chew@macross.csd.sgi.com (Stephen Chew)
- Subject: Re: Runaway sendmail!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.022536.5375@news.csd.sgi.com>
- Sender: news@news.csd.sgi.com (Net News CSD)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- References: <C17xuE.JM2@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:25:36 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <C17xuE.JM2@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, dpape@imlab (Daniel X Pape) writes:
- |> I looked at a ps -e listing of the current processes...
- |>
- |> and there were at least 25 sendmail processes running.
- |>
- |> What could cause sendmail to be run more than once? I thought that
- |> the only place that sendmail was invoked was by init on startup.
- |>
-
- Sounds like you have undeliverable mail bouncing somewhere.
- Everytime sendmail needs to deliver a messge, it forks off
- another process.
-
- |> I've rebooted the machine a few times, and this doesn't seem to help.
- |> Killing all but one of the processes doesn't work either.
- |>
- |>
-
- What you should do is:
- 1) killall sendmail
- 2) cd /usr/spool/mqueue
- 3) rm * <- This assumes that you don't have any mail messages
- you want to keep. If that is not true, you may want
- to mv all these files somewhere else and look at them.
- Also, if there are alot of messages, you may have to
- par off the wildcard by using A*, B* etc.
- Whatever you do, DO NOT do .*
-
- |> OH-- also when running osview.... there are alway around 60-70 graphics
- |> interrupts every second, and about 250-300 system interrupts a second.
- |> EVEN when the machine is just sitting there with only one user!!
-
- I don't have an answer for this.
- --
- Stephen Chew (chew@csd.sgi.com) "Have a Happy New Year,
- SGI Product Support but please recycle the old one.
- Green earth and all the rest."
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