Re: [Exim] What type of resource is unavailable ?

In response to mark david mcCreary:

> Would somebody please confirm/reject my guess that the computer is out of
> memory, based on this error message in exim_paniclog

Memory, swop space or process table entries, I would guess.

> 2000-03-07 05:38:40 12SCeT-0008Ub-00 == xyz@??? T=smtp defer (-1):
> fork failed for remote delivery to nier.org: Resource temporarily
> unavailable
> 2000-03-07 05:38:40 12SCeT-0008Ub-00 == joe@??? T=smtp defer
> (-1): fork failed for remote delivery to powernet.com.ar: Resource
> temporarily unavailable

> This is an Intel box with 256 Meg ram, 127 Meg Swap, Red Hat 6.1, Linux
> 2.2.14 and Exim 3.13

Ouch. Unless Linux is _very_ different from FreeBSD I wouldn't run
with so little swop space; I would allocate at least 125% the size of
of the memory, preferably 200%.

Check things like vmstat to see what is going on, and look at the
total number of processes and how muc swop space is being used.

Gyan.