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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:10:29 -0700
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org>
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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


> 
> > Jeff
> 
> wfms
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