Philip Hazel (ph10@???) wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Myron Freeman wrote:
>
> > A followup to my Solaris 7 woes. Exim seems to be getting bizarre
> > host resolution hangs and timeouts at times, every once in a while
> > hanging the main daemon and its children. Since I don't have time to
> > explore further for now, I'm going to downgrade the machine to Solaris
> > 2.6 and pray that things work.
>
> Please let me know if that fixes things. I know people are running Exim
> successfully on 2.6.
>
Works perfectly. I'll check what it thinks the hostname is when I get
time to build another Solaris 7 machine.
> Did you upgrade from 2.5? Is this a large machine? It is a busy machine?
> We had problems on large 2.6 machines caused by a bug in one of the
> file-caching tables. It all went like treacle at busy times. A change to
> one of the kernel parameters is a workaround. I can provide details if
> you think this might be relevant.
>
The machine isn't very busy and it was a clean install.
I thank you for all of your help.
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