On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:45:52 PDT, Joe DeBattista <[log in to unmask]>  said:
> I experienced the same errors as both of you.  It seemed that my
> processing of xxxxxxx.mail files by sendmail also seemed slow.  I'm
> running AIX 4.3.2 and sendmail 8.11.3.  I've held off going to 1.8e
> because of these problems.  Have other AIX/sendmail list members
> experienced these problems?

(Note, I'm still on 1.8d, however I'll take a shot at it. ;)

The 'slow handling of xxxxx.mail' files can be improved drastically with:

1) Make sure you have 'FEATURE(nocanonify)' in sendmail.mc if you can.
2) In your go.user:
SMTP_FORWARD="localhost"
SMTP_FORWARD_1="3*localhost"

The "resource temporarily unavailable" sounds like Listserv 1.8e is making
Sendmail tickle a resource constraint in the AIX kernel.  I'd look at the
various /usr/sbin/no options, in particular 'somaxconn' (which controls the
maximum listen() backlog).  Also, see if 'netstat -s' and/or 'netstat -m'
show anything opdd...)

/Valdis
>
>                                  Joe DeBattista
>                                  UCSF, ITS
>                       INTERNET:  [log in to unmask]
>
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Patrick Price wrote:
>
> > We get the same "Resource temporarily unavailable" also on AIX 4.3.3.
> >  I'd be interested if you get this resolved.
> >
> > $ ulimit -a
> > time(seconds)        unlimited
> > file(blocks)         2097151
> > data(kbytes)         131072
> > stack(kbytes)        32768
> > memory(kbytes)       32768
> > coredump(blocks)     2097151
> > nofiles(descriptors) 8096
> >
> > We have maxprocs set to 500.  Lsoft tech support suggested "try
> > increasing nofiles to 4096 and see if that makes a difference."
> > We also have to restart lsv from time to time when it quits responding
> > to the web interface.
> >
> > Patrick Price
> > Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
> > West Virginia University OIT Information Systems
> >
> > Bill Verity wrote:
> >
> > >I tried running 1.8e again this morning and backed off again.
> > >
> > >On my console it get a lot of the following two messages.  These messages do not go into the listserv.log file.
> > >
> > >Receive error: Resource temporarily unavailable
> > >and
> > >Interrupted system call
> > >
> > >Since I don't get these with 1.8d, I'm concerned.
> > >
> > >Any idea where these alerts are coming from?  I suspect they have something to do with sendmail but this is just a wild guess.
> > >--
> > >BE ALERT!!!!  (The world needs more lerts ...)
> > >
> > >Bill Verity - 814-865-4758  Fax: 814-863-7049
> > >215A Computer Building - Information Technology Services, Penn State University
> > >At the office - on my Mac, of course ;-)
> > >
> > >
> >
>