[BUGS] [root: seaholm security check output]

[Jerahmy Pocott]

On 23/01/2008, at 7:30 PM, jonathan michaels wrote:

> is there a definitive way of finding out, as far as i can tell
> teh machine is pretty quiesent, it dose nothing 'special' just
> run sendmail to collect mail from 4 local hosts process and
> send out as well as teh processing of teh incoming, the "NOQUEUE"
> failures as well as teh 'lost input channel" o suppose these
> also require thier own child and so a place at teh 'table' ?
>
> so if these increase than it is a problem, yes ?
>
> would a faster cpu help ?

What is the output of sockstat? That should give you some idea..

How does it collect from the 4 hosts? Maybe that is what you used uucp  
for? (from your log message post)

The main thing that spawns child processes are incoming connections  
and running of queues. For example when someone connects with smtp  
that starts something like 4 new processes. So say you have a number  
of connections sitting there not doing anything each using 4 processes  
and sendmail not dropping them until they haven't sent a command for  
an hour, you could easily reach the proc limit, then your queue runner  
fires up and forks a few times.. Boom table full. (The queues get run  
every 30 minutes by default)

A faster cpu would only help if the process overflow is caused by old  
processes taking too long to finish.

Are these separate messages on the same question making it more  
confusing? >.<

I'm not much of an expert on this stuff, just trying to help, don't  
put too much faith in me!

Cheers,
Jerahmy.