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

On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 18:23:27 +0100 Gyan Mathur wrote:

> 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.

Yes, I also think so. I had this problem once when I tried too
many deliveries simultaneously.

>> 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.

Bernard Stern, SWITCH