Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!bridge2!mdb From: mdb@ESD.3Com.COM (Mark D. Baushke) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Problem with sendmail-5.65+IDA-1.4.2 Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 91 08:39:30 GMT References: Sender: news@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM Organization: 3Com Corp., Santa Clara, CA. Lines: 58 In-reply-to: sinkkila@finsun.csc.fi's message of 20 Feb 91 14:53:20 GMT On 20 Feb 91 14:53:20 GMT, sinkkila@finsun.csc.fi (Timo Sinkkila) said: Timo> I have a problem with sendmail-5.65+IDA-1.4.2 running on Timo> Sun 4/390 (SunOS 4.1). I got it running Timo> (aliases database and so on worked well), but it crashed the Sun few Timo> times (three times) during the night. We have had the same sendmail Timo> running on Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.03) about one month and it seems to work Timo> fine. Timo> Does anybody has any idea why it crashed the system ? Was it a 'data fault' crash? If so, you may have run into the PMEG bug. You can either get the patch from Sun, or upgrade to SunOS 4.1.1. Timo> Thank you in advance ! Timo> Timo Sinkkil{ Timo> --------------------------------------------------------------- Timo> sinkkila@csc.fi Center for Scientific Computing Timo> SINKKILA@FINFUN.BITNET PL 40 SF-02101 Espoo FINLAND Timo> Phone: +358 0 4571 Telefax: + 358 0 4572302 Good Luck, -- Mark D. Baushke mdb@ESD.3Com.COM The README for the Patch has this to say: --------------- README extract --------------- Patch-ID# 100092-03 Keywords: 4/60, performance, memory, pmeg, kernel, vm Synopsis: poor VM performance with physical memory greater than 16Mb. Date: 27/July/90 SunOS release: 4.1 Unbundled Product: Unbundled Release: Topic: BugId's fixed with this patch: 1038249 Architectures for which this patch is available: sun4 sun4c sun4/490 Patches which may conflict with this patch: Obsoleted by: 4.1.1 Problem Description: The system overhead due to page map entry shuffling is excessive and with increased memory, the system uses excessive CPU cycles. --------------- README extract ---------------