What's using all the memory? Did you do a top? Sounds like a memory
leak. Unless you'd done something horribly strange, it's not qmail...
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Derek Harkness wrote:
> I've been having a problem with a new qmail box I setup. It's running on
> RH6.0 with a 2.2.12 kernel, the box is a Pentium/133 with 64 megs of RAM
> and 128 meg swap. The problem is the box runs great for about two to three
> days, then starts complaining that there is no memory. This leads to the
> killing off of every process on the system. The kernel doesn't hang but
> it does require a reboot of the box. The problem seems to occur while the
> box is under a moderate to heavy load. I've been running qmail on several
> different boxes for a while and have never come across this problem.
> I've killed off everything not vitial to the system and have even made a
> habit of watching the memory on this box. Everthing on the box is stock
> other then the kernel and several updates from RH. At this point I'm just
> looking for suggestions as to where to look next.
>
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