[CentOS] Postfix dying

[Paul Norton]

Christopher Chan wrote:
> 
>>> Do you sometimes find anvil missing? I wonder if you can strace 
>>> master and see what it is doing or waiting for...
>>
>> This happened again this morning. I see the anvil process died -
>>
>> 22815 ? Z 0:13 [anvil] <defunct>
>>
>> # strace -p 22799
>> Process 22799 attached - interrupt to quit
>> futex(0xb7bc2bec, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL <unfinished ...>
>>
>> That's all there was from strace.
>>
> 
> I saw your post on the postfix list. Do you really have problems with 
> number of file handles? IIRC file-max is automatically adjusted? On my 
> box it is pretty high at 48520 without any tuning on my part.

I don't believe so.  I don't see errors like this anywhere else on the 
system.

> What does 'sysctl fs.file-nr' say?

fs.file-nr = 2240       0       205964

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