Jeroen van Aart:
> Wietse Venema wrote:
> > Postfix has proven to be rock solid, and there is no need to
> > make it less reliable with trigger-happy babysitters.
>
> I am not giving any value judgement to postfix. In fact it's one of the
> few MTAs I would trust to run on any systems I manage.
>
> The problem is not postfix, it's that something I have no direct control
> over at regular daily intervals (say in the middle of the night)
> consumes a lot of memory and CPU time causing postfix to quit.
Postfix usually logs an error if it cannot proceed. What are the
logfile symptoms (excluding those caused by your babysitter)?
Postfix master does not allocate memory after it is initialized,
so the oom killer theory seems a red herring (apart from the fact
that the oom killer would not send SIGTERM).
Wietse
