From: Dominic Clarke (dominicc@foe.co.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 05 2004 - 09:18:53 EDT
We are running following :
Sun 240R , Solaris 9 , patch 112233-08 , Sun Sendmail 8.12.9
On a couple of occasions recently teh mail service has frozen. I have set up monitoring
using 'ps -aux' and 'uptime' , an extract from this during the 'frozen' period shows :
Tue Oct 5 10:10:01 BST 2004
10:10am up 4 day(s), 19:38, 3 users, load average: 5.21, 5.35, 4.92
USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT S START TIME COMMAND
root 26320 24.5 0.1 2384 1672 ? R Oct 03 1707:51 /usr/local/bin/dcc
root 13505 24.3 0.1 2384 1672 ? R Oct 03 1371:03 /usr/local/bin/dcc
root 29150 24.0 0.1 2384 1672 ? R Oct 03 1632:38 /usr/local/bin/dcc
root 21955 1.8 0.5 9064 8888 ? O 10:10:02 0:00 /usr/local/Sophos/
root 21957 0.7 0.94900817920 ? R 10:10:03 0:00 /opt/perl/bin/perl
lianas 21916 0.5 0.2 5096 3664 ? S 10:09:58 0:00 imapd
root 3 0.4 0.0 0 0 ? S Sep 30 35:39 fsflush
evem 21747 0.2 0.2 4432 3008 ? S 10:09:01 0:00 imapd
root 2295 0.2 2.24900843680 ? S 07:23:36 1:21 /opt/perl/bin/perl
sar shows almost 100% on usr , constantly. Looking back through my sar records shows that this
had been the case for several days , during which time e-mail functionality was unimpaired.
The maximum number of users we have accessing e-mail concurrently is 120 , we are running Netscape
e-mail client , imap daemon.
I rebooted the whole machine , and now e-mail works OK. No dcc processes are currently
running.
Any ideas what might be causing the problem ?
Dominic Clarke
www.foe.co.uk
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