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?