I set the SMTP_FORWARD as you suggested and now have 5 ./lsv processes running, but after startup I get many more errors whereas before I only saw one or two. $ ./go bg > Starting LISTSERV as a background process $ Receive error: Resource temporarily unavailable Receive error: Resource temporarily unavailable Receive error: Resource temporarily unavailable Receive error: Resource temporarily unavailable Receive error: Resource temporarily unavailable Receive error: Resource temporarily unavailable Receive error: Recourse temporarily unavailable Receive error: Resource temporarily unavailable Receive error: Resource temporarily unavailable netstat -s and netstat -m don't show anything unusual that I can see. Our somaxconn is 1024, I'm going to look into that some more before changing it. Patrick Price West Virginia University Valdis Kletnieks wrote: >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 ;-) >>>> >>>>