flexfax: Re: Faxmail error? HELP!!!

[Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>]

On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Patrick Gardella wrote:

> >> All of them had the error code 2 that says "Cannot fork"
> >
> >options         CHILD_MAX=128
> >options         OPEN_MAX=128
> >
> >You might try just rebooting too.  I'd have to see a ps -ax to get a sense
> >of what's going on.  hylafax may be leaking memory or file descriptors.
> 
> I've done this and will see what happens (kernel and reboot).  It may take a 
> while to have this problem come up again, since this did not happen until
> after almost 1 1/2 months of continuous running without a reboot.  

OK, I understand now.  On really busy systems, a periodic reboot doesn't
hurt.  Unfortunately some resources don't get released properly and they
just keep piling up until you run out of space. 

> The zombie processes have diappeared, by the time I went in to copy down 
> the ps -ax data.  I did see that they were (hfaxd) and (faxq), before when
> I first did ps -ax.

Okay, they were finally found by the server process and were removed.  At
least there weren't like 20 laying around.

The max is 64 or 128, it just sucks up more kernel memory if you increase
the value.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
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