Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Why do I get hung sendmails? Message-ID: <4026@phri.UUCP> Date: 3 Oct 89 15:17:10 GMT Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC, NY Lines: 17 Under SunOS-3.5.2 using IDA Sendmail 5.59++/IDA-1.2.5, we occasionally get a bunch of sendmails hung, with consecutive (or nearly so) pids. They never seem to use up any cpu time, but they do eat VM and space in various system tables, so I'd like to figure out how to prevent them. Anybody have any idea what might be happening? Here's a current example: USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT TIME COMMAND root 2224 0.0 0.0 280 0 ? IW 0:00 -running queue (sendmail) root 2223 0.0 0.0 280 0 ? IW 0:00 -running queue (sendmail) root 2222 0.0 0.0 280 0 ? IW 0:00 -running queue (sendmail) root 2221 0.0 0.0 280 0 ? IW 0:00 -running queue (sendmail) -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu "The connector is the network"