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 -- Paul Norton Systems Administrator Neoverve - www.neoverve.com Neoverve Blog - http://blog.neoverve.com/