Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

Christopher Chan wrote:

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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