[Mailman-Users] Mailman sending out email duplicates

[Justin Alcorn]

It means just what the previous line said:

pid 32821 (sendmail), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space

Running out of swap space is VERY BAD.  All kinds of BAD things will happen to 
your system.  the line you referenced simply means that a function called 
swap_pager_getswapspace wasn't able to do it's job..because you were out of 
swap.  Either you have too little memory, too little swap, or a nasty memory 
leak in one of the programs you are running.

Add swap ( `man swap` ) and reboot.

Jonathan Chum wrote:
> I noticed that Apache died during the night over during this period and
> rummaging through some log files, I've picked up this:
> 
> pid 32821 (sendmail), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space
> Oct  9 00:05:23 custsvr1 /kernel: pid 32821 (sendmail), uid 0, was killed:
> out of swap space
> swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
> Oct  9 00:25:17 custsvr1 sendmail[37992]: g993CjL36495: SYSERR(root): Can't
> create transcript file ./xfg993CjL36495: File ex
> ists
> Oct  9 00:57:55 custsvr1 sendmail[37992]: g993EGL36589: queueup: cannot
> create ./tfg993EGL36589, uid=0: File exists
> Oct  9 01:11:35 custsvr1 sendmail[38256]: g9931DL35920: queueup: cannot
> create ./tfg9931DL35920, uid=0: File exists
> Oct  9 01:49:01 custsvr1 sendmail[38256]: g993APL36303: SYSERR(root): Can't
> create transcript file ./xfg993APL36303: File ex
> ists
> 
> This log was in the dmesg.today in the /var/log directory.
> 
> Exactly what does "swap_pager_getswapspace: failed" mean? I'm assuming that
> there was enough swap space, so Mailman died and reattempted to try again,
> yet loosing it's place as to what users did receive the newsletter, and
> resent the letter again.
> 
> Mailman was setup as a 1 way delivery system, that is, only 1 admin sends
> the newsletter, and everyone on the list receives a copy of it.
> 
> Currently this is what top looks like this morning at 8:00 AM EST:
> 
> last pid: 61450;  load averages:  0.55,  0.18,  0.08
> up 49+15:23:38  08:12:57
> 40 processes:  1 running, 39 sleeping
> CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
> idle
> Mem: 15M Active, 13M Inact, 44M Wired, 2288K Cache, 22M Buf, 48M Free
> Swap: 512M Total, 17M Used, 495M Free, 3% Inuse
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Chait [mailto:davidc at bonair.stanford.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 5:14 PM
> To: jchum at aismedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman sending out email duplicates
> 
> 
> John,
>     Switch your MTA on to a debug setting and watch the conversation go
> through, that should score some type of information.
> 
> -David
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Chum" <jchum at aismedia.com>
> To: <mailman-users at python.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 2:12 PM
> Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman sending out email duplicates
> 
> 
> 
>>I hate quoting myself, but I'm a bit frustrated with Mailman at the
> 
> moment.
> 
>>I've checked the logs/smtp just to make sure I was giving qrunner enough
>>time. Did some research on the archives of python and was not able to
>>determine what other possible causes.
>>
>>The message ID was the exact ID in all 3 messages I received in my test
>>account. The time stamp was also the same on when the message was sent.
>>
>>I'm not sure if the MTA duplicated or Mailman duplicated the message. Any
>>ideas?
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: mailman-users-admin at python.org
>>[mailto:mailman-users-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Jonathan Chum
>>Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 2:52 PM
>>To: mailman-users at python.org
>>Subject: [Mailman-Users] Mailman sending out email 3x
>>
>>
>>Mailman on the last email l sent out mailed users 3 copies of the email to
>>the entire list. I'm not why this started happening as we haven't changed
>>any settings, and I'm not sure where to start as to why this email was
> 
> sent
> 
>>out over a period of 3 days.
>>
>>Any ideas or suggestions on what could be happening? I'm using it with
>>Sendmail if that helps.
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>>Jonathan Chum
>>Systems Developer
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