On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:19:17PM -0400, Ofer Inbar wrote:
> Wietse Venema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ofer Inbar:
> > > Victor Duchovni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Your queue manager is crashing.
> > > [...]
> > > > Queue manager re-starts.
> > >
> > > Is that a bug? Should it handle this situation more gracefully?
> >
> > No, you should not restart the queue manager willy-nilly.
>
> Right. But when we had "too many" smtp processes, and memory got
> scarce, qmgr was in effect restarting itself willy-nilly every few
> minutes. It might have been due to memory scarcity & swapping, or
> something else correlated with that. It stopped happening when we
> reduced the number of smtp processes.
>
> So my question is, in those conditions, isn't the fact that qmgr
> crashes and restarts every few minutes, a bug?
No, it is not a bug. The queue manager "crashes" when it is unable to
do its job. This is sensible behaviour. Don't misconfigure your system
to trigger resource starvation.
You have not posted the relevant ": fatal: ..." messages from the
queue manager. Until you do, nothing further can be said.
It is not even clear that you are not restarting the queue manager
via "postfix reload"...
--
Viktor.
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