On 10 oct. 2010, at 12:26, Jeroen Geilman wrote: >>> 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.
> 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. I'm running Postfix 2.7.1 on top of FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE-p2 #0, amd64, on top of ESXi 4 But if it's linked to virtualization, it might be a vmware tools problem... Patrick PRONIEWSKI -- Administrateur Système - SENTIER - Université Lumière Lyon 2
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