Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:13:27 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue] |
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Claus Assmann wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 11, 2000, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > > > > > > It ran out of memory. The file got sent fine after I got rid of > > > > all the memory-consumers. Looks like a sendmail bug where they > > > > expect to load a whole file into memory all at once before sending > > > > it. I always thought you could read from a file, then write to > > As I wrote before: this is just wrong. sendmail doesn't > load the file into memory. > > > > > a socket. Maybe I'm old fashioned. > > > > Sending a 50 MB file is OK here. So it's not a TCP/IP bug. > > Ok, hopefully this reaches everyone who has been "involved" > by Jeff into this "problem". > > It turned out that this was just a misconfiguration on his box > (the load average exceeded the limit of his sendmail). > > Can we please close this case now? Thanks.
There was also an issue relative to how sendmail is interpreting load average on a linux box. hpa@transmeta.com pointed out that perhaps you are not factoring sleeping processes, which Linux does -- a deviation from BSD's interpretation of load average. With a handle like "Assmann", deviation is proably something you already understand quite well ...
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