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> > It looks like you are out of Swap space...
> 
>   This machine is a web server and email server.  There was nobody logged 
> in at these times.  I have 32 megs of ram and 43 megs of swap.  There was 
> also about 20 pages of messages having to do with sendmail.  Here are a 
> few of those attached below.
> 
>   I have never had any problems before, and now when I was getting these 
> sendmail problems I was getting all these messages.  I do not think that 
> it is just a swap problem..

I thought the first poster was being sarcastic (He probably was), because
it's so obvious that your problem *IS* that your running out of memory.
I don't build a machine with less than 128MB of swap, 43 is nothing, 
especially for a machine that's acting as a web server/mail server...

	-- Rob
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