Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:10:29 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue] |
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"William F. Maton" wrote: > > 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?
Richard has determined that it's a low memory problem on Linux with sendmail. Perhaps it affects Solaris as well, try it in low memory with a big file.
Jeff
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