On 10/10/2010 10:33 AM, Patrick Proniewski wrote:
On 10 oct. 2010, at 02:41, Wietse Venema wrote:
Postfix daemons terminate voluntarily when they receive no request
for $max_idle seconds. The watchdog timer is a safety mechanism;
it terminates a process when it appears to hang.
The $max_idle timer uses select(2), poll(2), epoll(3) or /dev/poll
depending on the operating system type and version. Failure of this
timer is usually a symptom of virtualization bugs.
That's interesting! Thank you. The FreeBSD server running those postfix is a
virtual machine on top of VMWare ESXi, and running VMWare Tools.
I'll try to get some support from VMWare (and FreeBSD users), but if someone
here has an idea (vmware issue? bios tuning? freebsd tuning?...) I'd be happy
to read about it.
thanks,
I'd start with the version of postfix you're running - what is it ?
I run postfix on half a dozen vmware ESX guests, all of them Ubuntu,
never had any sort of problem with this.
They all run 2.6 or higher.
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J.
