Re: sendmail, spamass-milter and zombies

2014-01-22 Thread Petar Bogdanovic
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 01:05:54PM +, Stephen Borrill wrote: I'm using sendmail and spamass-milter from pkgsrc on netbsd-5. When I use the -B flag to spamass-milter to forward on spam mail to another address, when a mail gets forwarded the child sendmail process (often) remains as a

raidframe: deleting a large file takes minutes and makes system unresponsive

2014-01-22 Thread Petar Bogdanovic
Hi, I issued a `rm some-file-that-is-over-300gb-in-size' minutes ago and am still waiting for rm to return. That itself is not a problem but it seems that the process of removing such a large file almost halts everything else that is also doing i/o. I noticed every once in a while that there

Re: Randomness

2014-01-22 Thread Havard Eidnes
On Jan 15, 2014, at 10:21 , Justin Cormack jus...@specialbusservice.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Fredrik Pettai pet...@nordu.net wrote: While at the topic randomness, would be good if NetBSD could implement an ioctl like Linux RNDADDENTROPY? This helps to increase the

Re: raidframe: deleting a large file takes minutes and makes system unresponsive

2014-01-22 Thread Michael van Elst
pe...@smokva.net (Petar Bogdanovic) writes: Is it normal that a simple rm can starve everything else? /dev/raid0a on / type ffs (log, NFS exported, local) ffs logging (aka WAPBL) on raid is known to have such issues.

Re: raidframe: deleting a large file takes minutes and makes system unresponsive

2014-01-22 Thread Petar Bogdanovic
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 09:07:07PM +, Michael van Elst wrote: pe...@smokva.net (Petar Bogdanovic) writes: Is it normal that a simple rm can starve everything else? /dev/raid0a on / type ffs (log, NFS exported, local) ffs logging (aka WAPBL) on raid is known to have such issues.