a very confused mailscanner?

[Julian Field]

At 14:54 11/11/2003, you wrote:
>On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Spicer, Kevin wrote:
>
>-}Randy Schultz wrote:
>-}> -}> At first I thought it was insufficient file descriptors
>-}> -}> available so I up'ed
>-}> -}> that limit and rebooted.  No effect.  The in queue has only
>-}> -}> 1400 emails to
>-}> -}> be processed, system is idle, tons of all resources available.
>-}> -}>
>-}> -}> Anybody have any idea what's up?
>-}
>-}You don't say which OS.
>
>Aack.  Silly me.  FreeBSD 5.1, sendmail 8.12.9(patched), mailscanner 4.24.5.
>Dual 800 Mhz procs, 1GB RAM, 20 GB hard drive 37% full.

I would not recommend running a busy server on any OS that doesn't at least
have tmpfs.
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