Input/Output Error

[Glenn Steen]

On 23/06/06, Marcelo Zacarias da Silva <marcelo at ciagri.usp.br> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 10:28:57AM -0400, Matt Standish wrote:
> > Hello all.
> > After running Mailscanner for a while (I haven't been able to find a
> > constant variable) MailScanner (postfix) stops delivering or receiving
> > mail. I receive an Input/Output error whenever I type a command at the
> > terminal and I am forced to reboot. I am thinking I am either running
> > too many processes or opening to many files.  Anyone know a kernel
> > variable I can try and set?
> > I am running
> >
> > Suse 10.0
> > MailScanner 4.53.6-1
> > Postfix 2.2.5
> > SA 3.1.0
> > ClamAV 0.88
> > Bind is running for local caching
> >
> > I am using just the database logging portion of MailWatch
> >
> > I have a ram drive at /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
> >
> > The server is a
> > Dual PIV 1.8Ghz Xeon
> > 4G Ram
> > 120G RAID 5 (SCSI 10k RPM) (ReiserFS)
> >
> > I havce nothing in /var/log/messages, which I am assuming is because
> > the file system can't be written too.
> >
>
> I had the same problem with an Adaptec 2200S SCSI RAID controller and
> the aacraid driver.  The problem was (almost) solved with a firmware
> upgrade.
>
>
Excelent suggestions by others... You could try get some more infor by
way of using the magic sysrq thing. It often don't give that much, but
at least one can look at what the system thinks it was doing at the
point of error:)

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