Re: router instability

[Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>]

> Hi,
> 
> we're running zmailer-2.99.44p1 on Linux, kernel 2.0.27 libc-5.4.17. All
> the components of Zmailer are quite stable save router. Namely, when I
> restart the router (-dkn 4)  with
> 
> zmailer router
> 
> sometimes the 4 router processes just die in 10-30 seconds, delivering
> some mail and without any nasty diagnostics. After I issue 'zmailer
> router' several times (sometimes it's more than 10) one of the router
> processes turns to zombie, but the remaining 3 become quite stable and
> after that Zmailer runs without any problems for many days (2.99.43
> demonstarted the same behaviour, but with 1 zombie router it was
> successfully working in heavy traffic conditions for more that 2 weeks). 

	PROPABLY this is the  svstack[]  limit thing that Olivier did
	notice too.

	I still wonder, why you don't get cores ?
...
> Has anybody seen the similar behaviour ?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Alexandre Sidorenko		Senior System Administrator
> asid@microtec.net
> Internet Microtec, Montreal, QC

	/Matti Aarnio