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Date:      Sat, 10 Apr 2004 08:29:38 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Cory Petkovsek <cory@adaptableit.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sendmail/strace hanging
Message-ID:  <20040410072938.GA8301@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20040410012741.GB10773@adaptableit.com>
References:  <20040408230839.GH4101@adaptableit.com> <20040409091642.GB33753@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20040410012741.GB10773@adaptableit.com>

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On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 06:27:42PM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 10:16:42AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 04:08:39PM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
> >=20
> > > Stopping sendmail with `sh /etc/rc.sendmail stop` works quickly.  Sta=
rting it
> > > takes about 3min.   Both sendmail-submit and sendmail-clientmqueue ta=
ke a
> > > while before moving.  Booting also has this delay.
> >=20
> > In the interests of eliminating the obvious: you have confirmed that
> > this is not some sort of DNS timeout?  Delays of that length on
> > starting up sendmail are usually due to waiting out the DNS timeouts.
>=20
> Would dns timeouts affect mailq?  My dns is setup correctly locally, whic=
h is
> where I was trying to send my tests, to my local mailhub.  What is also
> interesting is that it has started working again at a normal speed, witho=
ut any
> changes or restarts.  It was slow over config changes, make world, and
> reboots.  But became slow, then became normal just by sitting idle.  I ha=
ve a
> p4 with HT and an SMP/HT kernel.  Could that have anything to do with it?

Hmmm... Very strange.  I wonder if it's sendmail causing the effect at
all -- sounds like it might be something more systemic.  Do you have
ACPI enabled?  Could it be that the system is throttling the CPU under
load -- perhaps to keep the CPU cool?

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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