Jordi Moles Blanco: > En/na Wietse Venema ha escrit: > > Jordi Moles Blanco: > > > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> i was wondering if someone has experienced this problem i've been having > >> for 2 weeks now. > >> > >> I'm running Freebsd 7.0 and postfix-2.5.1. > >> > >> The thing is that i've set up a filter written in C using postfix's > >> "pipe" feature. The filter works great most of the times.... but every > >> 2-3 days.... mainly depending on the amount of load... FreeBSD hangs > >> completely(or almost completely) and leaves this message behind: > >> > > > > What problems does the kernel report in /var/log/messages? > > > > Wietse > > > > Hi, > > well... the main problem is that before that, nothing is written in > /var/log/messages or any file in that path, not even the message i'm > talking about. Instead, i always see it through the KVM device attached > to the server, but it's not logged anywhere.
If your system hangs without logging a problem to /var/log/messages, you need to figure out why it does this. Meanwhile, you can reduce the Postfix load by setting "default_process_limit=20" in main.cf and restarting Postfix. Wietse