[CentOS] Postfix dying
Christopher Chan
christopher at ias.com.hk
Tue Nov 13 02:37:24 UTC 2007
Paul Norton wrote:
> 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
>
Heh, yours is even higher :-)
May I suggest trying postfix 2.3.13?
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