From: Markus Linden (lindenm at domain rte.ie)
Date: Tue 21 Aug 2001 - 16:31:43 IST
I might be totaly wrong here but it looks like a cron job that starts
sendmail every hour. Have a look in the /etc/cron.hourly folder.
Also have a look at the log files to see if there are any clues there.
Markus
On Tue, 2001-08-21 at 16:05, Dermot Beirne wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have a CVS server running on Mandrake 7.1 at work, and it is starting to
> run unworkably slow a few weeks ago. After investigation I have found the
> following sendmail processes running on the machine that is killing its
> performance.
>
> Here is an extract of the ps-eaf|grep sendmail command
>
> root 2339 2324 0 04:02 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail
> -FCronDaemon
> root 2418 2391 0 05:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail
> -FCronDaemon
> root 2466 2439 0 06:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail
> -FCronDaemon
> root 2512 2485 0 07:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail
> -FCronDaemon
> root 2558 2531 0 08:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail
> -FCronDaemon
> root 2606 2579 0 09:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail
> -FCronDaemon
> root 2657 2630 0 10:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail
> -FCronDaemon
> root 2709 2682 0 11:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail
> -FCronDaemon
> root 2770 2743 0 12:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail
> -FCronDaemon
> root 2816 2789 0 13:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail
> -FCronDaemon
> root 2894 2867 0 14:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail
> -FCronDaemon
> root 2940 2913 0 15:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail
> -FCronDaemon
> root 2991 2962 0 16:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail
> -FCronDaemon
>
> I am finding it surprisingly difficult to find any useful information on
> this error while googling the net, and was hoping that someone here has
> been through the mill with this error already.
>
> There are hundreds of the above processes, and they are continuing to grow
> all the time. I have stopped everything that I felt was related to it, and
> it sure enough it stayed away for a few weeks, but now it's back today, and
> the machine is dying again.
>
> Does anyone recognise where it may be coming from, or what in sendmail is
> causing it.
> Many thanks in advance,
> Dermot.
>
>
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