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From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: IDA Sendmail on Sun 4 panics ... any ideas?
Message-ID: <1990Sep15.200440.15903@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 15 Sep 90 20:04:40 GMT
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Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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rws@cs.brown.edu (Richard W. Sabourin) writes:


>I have recently installed Sendmail 5.64+ w/ IDA on our central mail machine,
>a Sun 4/360 running 4.1.
[...]
>Anyway, this machine has recently begun panicking a couple times a week,
[...]
>panic: Data fault
[...]
>Sendmail is always listed as the culprit, and always a Bad Trap.

I believe it's a kernel bug.  We had a very similar problem, but with a
user directory server witten in perl.  I don't know what provokes it.
We stopped running the server.  Now, two or three times a week, the
machine goes to sleep, and has to be re-booted.  A ps listing from the
dump always shows a particular process getting virtually all the cpu.
-- 
-Gary Mills-             -University of Manitoba-             -Winnipeg-