Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Why do I get hung sendmails? Message-ID: <3093@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 11 Oct 89 14:58:40 GMT References: <4026@phri.UUCP> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 25 In-reply-to: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) In article <4026@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri (Roy Smith) writes: >USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT TIME COMMAND >root 2224 0.0 0.0 280 0 ? IW 0:00 -running queue (sendmail) >root 2223 0.0 0.0 280 0 ? IW 0:00 -running queue (sendmail) >root 2222 0.0 0.0 280 0 ? IW 0:00 -running queue (sendmail) >root 2221 0.0 0.0 280 0 ? IW 0:00 -running queue (sendmail) I can think of two possible causes for this, Roy. 1) the queue is too short (/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q15m) vs (/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q1h) 2) The mailer has a -I option in it. This was causing problems on machines on our internal; network when the ethernet mailer had the -I option. What happens is that the internal machine sends to the gateway, which then tries to make a connection to the remote machine. Until the mail is delivered, the internal machine's sendmail will not exit. I deleted the -I flag, and that seemed to fix the problem. -- Bruce G. Barnett uunet!crdgw1!barnett