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Re: fork: Cannot allocate memory and mail_addr_find problem

From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2006 - 08:50:55 CDT

brian:
> Wietse Venema wrote:
> >
> >> Wietse Venema wrote:
> >>
> >>> Run fewer processes or get more memory. See:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#default_process_limit
> >>>
> >>> Try a small number like 20.
> >>>
> >>> # postconf -e default_process_limit=20 # postfix reload
> >>>
> >>> Wietse
> >>
> >> Thanks Wietse. I /did/ mean to ask specifically about no. of
> >> processes but got carried away grabbing stuff from maillog. Any
> >> comments about the other odd behaviour? (*Is* it odd?)
> >
> >
> > Stuff that shows up only in debug logging is NOT odd.
> >
> > Wietse
>
> Perhaps i wasn't clear then. The "odd" behaviour i was referring to was
> the bit where smtpd was looking up a *remote* address in
> virtual_alias_maps when attempting to *send* an email. Debugging, or no,
> the mails were dropped. I'm fully aware that it's more than a little bit
> likely that i'm simply without clue here, but this seems to me to be
> something more than cryptic debugging statements.
>
> As i suggested earlier, maybe the killed processes had something to do
> with it. But i still don't understand why virtual_alias_maps should be
> involved when sending mail out.

I repeat, stuff that shows up only in debug logging is NOT odd.

        Wietse