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[Paul Menzel <address@concealed>]

Dear Mark,


thanks for sharing your findings.


Am Freitag, den 20.03.2009, 13:45 -0600 schrieb Mark Sallee:
> Paul Menzel wrote:

[…]

> > Trying to send the big message sympa was killed every time by the OOM
> > (Out of memory) killer of Linux (see other message). Moving this message
> > to bad fixed the problem for now (until the next big message gets
> > delivered). Maybe there is a way to debug why that much memory is
> > needed.

[…]

> We still occasionally have this same problem with Sympa Out of Memory,
> so we created a script running frequently in cron to check that two
> sympa.pl processes are always running (since we are in 'distribution'
> mode), and if there are not two processes, restart them. It's a kind of
> band-aid fix, but it has helped. We no longer have to get calls from
> users that a message hasn't gone out.  The basics of the script are
> attached.

Thank you for your script. I will try it out.


To gather some information. It would be nice if you could add yours.

1. What version of Sympa are you using?

5.3.4

2. Is it a virtual server?

VMWare

3. Distribution?

Debian Lenny

4. Sympa log message?

tools::safefork() Can't create new process in safefork: (localized
message about not enough memory)

5. Circumstances?

I just experienced this when a big message was received with a size of
1/20 of the size of the main memory.


Thanks,

Paul

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